enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of major biblical figures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_biblical_figures

    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.

  3. Job (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(biblical_figure)

    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.

  4. William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake's...

    The completed engravings differ from Blake's original watercolours mainly in the complex marginal designs that they employ. These comment upon the text with biblical quotes and paraphrases, and also contain images that reinforce the themes of the main illustrations.

  5. Depiction of Jesus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus

    Incised sarcophagus slab with the Adoration of the Magi from the Catacombs of Rome, 3rd century.Plaster cast with added colour. Except for Jesus wearing tzitzit—the tassels on a tallit—in Matthew 14:36 [9] and Luke 8:43–44, [10] there is no physical description of Jesus contained in any of the canonical Gospels.

  6. List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_figures...

    These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.

  7. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the...

    The origin of this interpretation is unclear. Some translations of the Bible mention "plague" (e.g. the New International Version) [25] or "pestilence" (e.g. the Revised Standard Version) [26] in connection with the riders in the passage following the introduction of the fourth rider; cf. "They were given power over a fourth of the Earth to ...

  8. Phoebe (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_(biblical_figure)

    Phoebe (Koine Greek: Φοίβη) was a first-century Christian woman mentioned by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, verses 16:1–2.A notable woman in the church of Cenchreae, she was trusted by Paul to deliver his letter to the Romans. [1]

  9. Category:Biblical people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biblical_people

    Category:Biblical people includes including real people, fictional characters, mythological, legendary and supernatural characters, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament