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The Prophecy of Daniel (Bible commentary, 1949) My Servants the Prophets (1952) The Authority of the Old Testament (1953) Thy Word is Truth (1957) The Book of Isaiah (Bible commentary, 1965–1972) Genesis 3 (Bible commentary, 1966) In the Beginning: Genesis 1-3 and the Authority of Scripture; Isaiah 53: A Devotional Study
Illustration from the Morgan Bible of David fleeing Jerusalem. Ziba is on the right, bringing David provisions. Ziba (ציבא) is a man in 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. He was a servant of Saul, and then later of Saul's grandson, Mephibosheth. Ziba is mentioned in three places.
However, the Bible has been treated and appreciated as literature; the King James Version in particular has long been considered a masterpiece of English prose, whatever may be thought of its religious significance. Several retellings of the Bible, or parts of the Bible, have also been made with the aim of emphasising its literary qualities.
Peshitta – the standard version of the Bible for churches in Syriac Christianity. Petrine privilege; Pharisees – The Pharisees were at various times a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought in the Holy Land during the time of Second Temple Judaism (536 BCE–70 CE).
The Book of Genesis in a c. 1300 Hebrew Bible The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a), one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the oldest complete copy of the Book of Isaiah. The Bible is not a single book; it is a collection of books whose complex development is not completely understood.
The Hebrew Book of Job is part of Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible. Not much is known about Job based on the Masoretic Text . The characters in the Book of Job consist of Job, his wife , his three friends ( Bildad , Eliphaz , and Zophar ), a man named Elihu , God , and angels .
As a compromise in Chinese they were called "bao-yi", but this caused further misunderstanding. In Manchu documents, booi only sometimes means "bond servant", and despite the common belief it can simply refer to "people to my house" in some occasions. [5] Pamela Kyle Crossley wrote in her book Orphan Warriors: "The Mongol is the slave of his ...
The expression Servant of God appears nine times in the Bible, the first five in the Old Testament, the last four in the New.The Hebrew Bible refers to Moses as "the servant of Elohim" (עֶֽבֶד הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים ‘eḇeḏ-hā’ĕlōhîm; 1 Chronicles 6:49, 2 Chronicles 24:9, Nehemiah 10:29, and Daniel 9:11).