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The Reina–Valera is a Spanish translation of the Bible originally published in 1602 when Cipriano de Valera revised an earlier translation produced in 1569 by Casiodoro de Reina. This translation was known as the "Biblia del Oso" (in English: Bear Bible ) [ 1 ] because the illustration on the title page showed a bear trying to reach a ...
Cipriano de Valera (1531–1602) was a Spanish Protestant Reformer and refugee who edited the first major revision of Casiodoro de Reina's Spanish Bible, which has become known as the Reina-Valera version. Valera also edited an edition of Calvin's Institutes in Spanish, as well as writing and editing several other works.
Reina was born about 1520 in Montemolín in the Province of Badajoz. [1] [2] From his youth onward, he studied the Bible.[1]In 1557, he was a monk of the Hieronymite Monastery of St. Isidore of the Fields, outside Seville (Monasterio Jerónimo de San Isidoro del Campo de Sevilla). [3]
The Good Samaritan by Jacob Jordaens, c. 1616. The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. [1] It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road.
The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah (Samaritan Hebrew: ࠕࠦࠅࠓࠡࠄ , Tūrā), is the sacred scripture of the Samaritans. [1] ...
The Samaritan's dilemma is a dilemma in the act of charity.It hinges on the idea that when presented with charity, in some locations such as a soup kitchen, a person will act in one of two ways: using the charity to improve their situation, or coming to rely on charity as a means of survival.
Samaritan is a direct descendant of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, which was a variety of the Phoenician alphabet.Paleo-Hebrew is the alphabet in which large parts of the Hebrew Bible were originally penned according to the consensus of most scholars, who also believe that these scripts are descendants of the Proto-Sinaitic script.
Landscape with the Good Samaritan is a 1638 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Rembrandt.It is one of only six oil landscapes by the artist, and it is also one of only three Rembrandt paintings in Polish collections; the other two are The Girl in a Picture Frame and The Scholar at the Lectern.