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By the second century CE Jewish sages began writing down interpretations of the Bible; Orthodox Jews consider these writings to embody the "oral law." These writings take several forms: Talmud – An authoritative commentary on the Mishnah. Mishnah – An analysis of the laws and meaning of the Bible, containing information from the oral law.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Lists of Bible pericopes itemize Bible stories or pericopes of the Bible. They include stories from the Hebrew Bible and from the Christian New Testament. List of Hebrew Bible events; List of New Testament pericopes; Gospel harmony#A parallel harmony presentation; Acts of the Apostles#Outline; Events of Revelation
The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New ...
The Babylonian King List B, The Babylonian King List A, A Seleucid King List: 1.135: Assyrian King Lists: 564–566: The Assyrian King List: Babylonian Chronicles: 1.137: Babylonian Chronicle: 301–307: The Neo-Babylonian Empire and its Successors: 1.143: An Assurbanipal Hymn for Shamash: 386–387: Prayer of Ashurbanipal to the Sun-God: Adad ...
List of Chinese Bible translations; List of English Bible translations; List of Hebrew Bible events; List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts; List of Jewish biblical figures; List of languages by year of first Bible translation; List of major biblical figures; List of minor biblical figures; List of minor biblical places; List of minor biblical tribes ...
Pseudepigrapha are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past. [1] Some of these works may have originated among Jewish Hellenizers, others may have Christian authorship in character and origin.
The prophetic books are a division of the Christian Bible, grouping 18 books (Catholic and Orthodox canon) or 17 books (Protestant canon, excluding Baruch) in the Old Testament. [1] In terms of the Tanakh , it includes the Latter Prophets from the Nevi'im , with the addition of Lamentations (which in the Tanakh is one of the Five Megillot ) and ...