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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


matter of editorial choice and does not necessarily indicate belief that the New Testament texts once displayed some form of the Tetragrammaton instead of Κύριος or Θεός. A translator could also for editorial reasons (without thereby expressing a judgment on what was the original New Testament text) present an Old Testament quotation in the form in which the translator envisages it in its Old Testament context, and an explanatory note could also employ a term associated with that other context. However, some or perhaps all of the following versions use "Jehovah" in
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Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture


Bible; Orthodox Jews consider these writings to embody the "oral law." These writings take several forms: For Christians, the Bible refers to the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Protestant Old Testament is largely identical to what Jews call "the Bible"; the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament (held to by some Protestants as well) is based on the prevailing first century Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, the Septuagint. The Bible as used by Christianity consists of two parts: Christians disagree on the
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Bible translations into Native South American languages


cm booklet -- 8 color maps of the "ancient biblical world" with index of place names -- is inserted and bound into the book after the final printed page (p740). 1987 Old and New Testament. 1947 New Testament, 1988 and 2004 Old and New Testament 2006 New Testament 1922 New Testament, 1993, 1997 and 2004 Old and New Testament 2004 New Testament 2004 New Testament 1997 Old and New Testament 2011 Old and New Testament 1954 New Testament, 1989 and 2000 Old and New Testament 1976 New Testament, 1994
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agree that it was pronounced "Yahweh". Its meaning is often associated with the Hebrew verb "to be" and a phrase in the Book of Exodus that is translated in various ways, and less frequently with another Semitic root linking the God of Israel with storms. George Howard put forward in 1977 a theory that the Greek-speaking authors of the books now in the New Testament wrote some form of this sacred name in their quotations from the Old Testament, but not elsewhere, and that copies of their works made
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letters. None are produced by mainstream publishers: most are published by the individual or group that produced the translation. Some are available for download on the Web. Very few of these Bibles have been noted or reviewed by scholars outside the Sacred Name Movement. Sacred Name Bibles are translations of the Bible that, in the New Testament (as well as in the Old) "consistently use Hebraic forms of God's name".Gary Mink, "What Is a Sacred Name Bible?"/ref One example is the "Holy Name Bible"
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New Testament apocrypha


", in the sense that the writings were written by an anonymous author who appended the name of an apostle to his work, such as in the Gospel of Peter or The Æthiopic Apocalypse of Enoch: almost all books, in both Old and New Testaments, called "apocrypha" in the Protestant tradition are pseudepigrapha. In the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, what are called the apocrypha by Protestants include the deuterocanonical books: in the Catholic tradition, the term "apocrypha" is synonymous with what Protestants would call the pseudepigrapha,
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Tetragrammaton


where the divine name occurs in the Old Testament only: Translations where the divine name occurs in the New Testament: Translations where the divine name occurs in the New Testament as well as in the Old Testament: The Eastern Orthodox Church considers the Septuagint text, which uses Κύριος (Lord), to be the authoritative text of the Old Testament, and in its liturgical books and prayers it uses Κύριος in place of the Tetragrammaton in texts derived from the Bible. In the Catholic Church, the first edition of the official Vatican
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Religious law


). Within the framework of Christianity, there are several possible definitions for religious law. One is the Mosaic Law (from what Christians consider to be the Old Testament) also called Divine Law or biblical law, the most famous example being the Ten Commandments. Another is the instructions of Jesus of Nazareth to his disciples in the Gospel (often referred to as the Law of Christ or the New Commandment or the New Covenant, in contrast to the Old Covenant). Another is the Apostolic Decree of Acts 15, which
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Sacred Name Bible


. Angelo Traina's translation, "The New Testament of our Messiah and Saviour Yahshua" in 1950 also used it throughout to translate Κύριος, and "The Holy Name Bible containing the Holy Name Version of the Old and New Testaments" in 1963 was the first to systematically use a Hebrew form for sacred names throughout the Old and New Testament, becoming the first complete Sacred Name Bible. Some translators of Sacred Name Bibles hold to the view that the New Testament, or significant portions of it, were originally written in a
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Development of the New Testament canon


2.12, chapter 8). Augustine effectively forced his opinion on the Church by commanding three synods on canonicity: the Synod of Hippo in 393, the Synod of Carthage (397), and another in Carthage in 419 AD (M 237-8). Each of these reiterated the same Church law: "nothing shall be read in church under the name of the divine scriptures" except the Old Testament (including the Deuterocanonicals) and the 27 canonical books of the New Testament. It seems these decrees also declared by fiat
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Typology (theology)


Pauline strata of the New Testament. The early Christians, in considering the Old Testament, needed to decide what its role and purpose was for them, given that Christian revelation and the New Covenant might be considered to have superseded it, and many specific Old Testament rules and requirements were no longer being followed from books such as Leviticus dealing with Expounding of the Law. One purpose of the Old Testament for Christians was to demonstrate that the Ministry of Jesus and Christ's first coming had been prophesied and foreseen, and the Gospels
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New Testament


and in what circumstances it was produced; what influences were at work in its production; what sources were used in its composition; and what message it was intended to convey. It will vary slightly depending on whether the focus is on the Old Testament, the letters of the New Testament, or the Canonical Gospels. It also plays an important role in the quest for the historical Jesus. It also addresses the physical text, including the meaning of the words and the way in which they are used, its preservation,
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Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture


as the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Jews regard the Old Testament part of the Christian Bible as scriptural, but not the New Testament. Christians generally regard both the Old Testament and the New Testament as scriptural. The same books are presented in a different order in the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament. The Torah/Pentateuch comes first in both. The Tanakh places the prophets next, then the historical material. The Christian Old Testament inverts this order,
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New American Bible


a suitable Catholic translation. In June 2003, another revision of the "Book of Psalms" was completed but was rejected by the Ad Hoc Committee. In September 2008, the Ad Hoc Committee accepted the final book of the Old Testament, namely, "Jeremiah". In November of that year, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved the complete Old Testament, including footnotes and introductions, but it would not permit it to be published with the "Book of Psalms" of 1991. It accepted the revised Grail
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Chester Beatty Papyri


, mixed, or unaligned. The manuscripts provided many new textual variations, especially because the Old Testament manuscripts predated the revision activity of Lucian and Origen and others, and the New Testament manuscripts are some of the earliest yet quite extensive examples of the corresponding books. Originally, there were believed to be eight manuscripts in the Chester Beatty collection that contained portions of the Old Testament. However, what was believed to be two different manuscripts actually belonged to the same codex, resulting in a total of seven Old Testament manuscripts in the
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Guilt (emotion)


accident or ignorance ). The New Testament says that this forgiveness is given as written in 1 Corinthians 15:3–4: "3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, for that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures." Some believe that the Old and New Testaments have differing opinions on the expiation of guilt because the Old Testaments were subject to the Age of Law and the New Testaments replace
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John L. McKenzie


been urged to show it should be attributed to another. It is as deeply imbedded in the Gospels as anything else; to repeat what I have said in other connections, if this theme is not the work of Jesus Himself then we know nothing about His words or His person. It is the peak of faith in the Old Testament, the supreme affirmation of the power of God and the weakness of man. When we meet the theme of the Suffering Servant as proclaimed in the New Testament, we are at the very
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Yahshua


a ploy to prevent the name of Yahweh (or Yah) appearing in the Messiah's name as follows: While some advocates of the "Yahshuah" spelling have asserted that the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament" states that the "Greek form of a list of Old Testament characters who in pre-exilic Hebrew are called Yahshu'a and usually after the Exile Yeshu'a" that spelling does not appear anywhere in the Theological Dictionary. What Kittel actually says is, "The Greek form of a list of OT characters who in
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Allegory in the Middle Ages


seen in relation to how it would predict the events of the New Testament, in particular how the events of the Old Testament related to the events of Christ's life. The events of the Old Testament were seen as part of the story, with the events of Christ's life bringing these stories to a full conclusion. The technical name for seeing the New Testament in the Old is called "typology". One example of typology is the story of Jonah and the whale from the Old Testament. Medieval allegorical interpretation of
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Richard Challoner


of Douai, he was one of the approving prelates for a revision of the Rheims New Testament published in 1730 by the college president, Robert Witham. After returning to England, he and Francis Blyth published in 1738 another revision of Rheims in an attractive large folio edition. Challoner's more important work would appear over the years 1749–1752. An edition of the New Testament appeared in 1749, and another, together with the first edition of the Old Testament, in 1750. Between the two editions of the New Testament there are
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Tripartite (theology)


what many theologians call progressive revelation. As with Genesis 2:7, other verses in the Old Testament directly correlate man's spirit (ruach) with God's breath (neshamah) (Job 27:3; 32:8; 33:4; 34:14). However, the revelation of the human spirit is obscure in the Old Testament, as is the revelation of the Holy Spirit or the Trinity. Not until the New Testament is the nature of God fully and explicitly revealed and likewise not until the New Testament (especially the Epistles) is the nature
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Greek name


marriage. In modern Greece, a woman keeps her father's family name for life but may use a husband's name. In official documents in modern Greece, people are given three names: a given name, a patronymic and a family name. Until the late 18th century, almost all Christian Greeks were named for [[Saint#Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox saints]] from the [[Old Testament|Old]] and [[New Testament|New]] Testaments and early [[Christianity|Christian]] tradition. Since then, names of both deities
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Philip Esler


to Old and New Testament texts to gain a better sense of what they meant to their original audiences. He has also published in the areas of New Testament theology and the Bible and the visual arts. He holds a Doctor of Divinity from the University of Oxford, by submitted work (2008), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2009). Born in Sydney, Australia on 27 August 1952, Esler completed secondary schooling at the then named Marist Brothers High School in the Sydney suburb of
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Codex Floriacensis


The Codex Floriacensis, designated by h in traditional system or by 55 in the Beuron system, is a 6th-century Latin manuscript of the New Testament. The text, written on vellum, is a palimpsest. Another name of the manuscript is "Fleury Palimpsest" or "Palimpsestus Floriacensis". It is one of the eight Old-Latin manuscripts with text of Apocalypse. The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament except the four Gospels and the Pauline epistles with numerous lacunae. 33 parchment leaves from the original 193
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Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament


title. In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible (written over a century before the time of Jesus), the word "Christos" was used to translate into Greek the Hebrew "mashiach" (messiah), meaning "anointed." (Another Greek word, "Messias" appears in Daniel 9:26 and Psalm 2:2.) The New Testament states that the Messiah, long-awaited, had come and describes this savior as "The Christ." In Apostle Peter, in what has become a famous proclamation of
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Believer's baptism


, as the sign of the covenant in the Old Testament (namely circumcision) was administered to infants, so should the sign of the covenant in the New Testament church (namely baptism) be ministered to infants. They (Reformed Baptists) argue that the Old Testament covenent pertained to the actual descendents of Jacob which made up the physical nation of Israel, whereas the covenant community in the New Testament constitutes the spiritual sons of Abraham and thus form the spiritual Israel. Thus, they argue, the sign of the covenant should
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Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition


especially the Latin translation known as the vulgate." Not all the books in the Septuagint are included among those that the Catholic Church considers to be part of the Old Testament. On the other hand, the early Eastern translation known as the Peshitta excluded five New Testament books that the Catholic Church declares to be canonical. Translations used by Protestants typically use the shorter Masoretic Text as their basis regarding the Old Testament. The Luther Bible included what he called the Apocrypha and changed the traditional order of some of the New Testament books
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Antithesis


interpretations of the Law current at the time. "Antithesis" was the name given by Marcion of Sinope to a manifesto in which he contrasted the Old Testament with the New Testament and defined what came to be known as Marcionism. In dialectics (any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments) antithesis is the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in a balanced way. The logical arguments are said to be stated in the order thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Although this style of philosophical
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


a list of Sacred Name translations of the New Testament that use a representation of the Tetragrammaton, see Sacred Name Bible#Tetragrammaton Sacred Name Bibles; and for a list of those that use transliterations (Yahweh, Jehovah), see Sacred Name Bible#Transliterated Sacred Name Bibles. Most English Bibles, including all widely-used translations, even those that in the Old Testament have "Yahweh" or "Jehovah" or the like, have no such term in the New Testament. In this, they are in line with all existing manuscripts of
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Eliot Indian Bible


three-year contract to help assist to print the entire Bible of 66 books (Old Testament and New Testament). "Eliot’s Indian Bible" was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Harvard College by Samuel Green. In 1661, with the assistance of the English printer Johnson and a Nipmuc named James Printer, Green printed 1500 copies of the New Testament. In 1663 they printed 1000 copies of the complete Bible of all 66 books (Old Testament and New Testament) in a 1,180 page volume. The costs for
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King James Version


' Bible as a base text, the New Testament in particular owes much stylistically to the Catholic Rheims New Testament, whose translators had also been concerned to find English equivalents for Latin terminology. In addition, the translators of the New Testament books transliterate names found in the Old Testament in their Greek forms rather than in the forms closer to the Old Testament Hebrew (e.g. "Elias" and "Noe" for "Elijah" and "Noah", respectively). While the Authorized Version remains among the most widely sold,
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Bible translations into Tibetan


’s successor F. A. Redslob (1838–1891) completed the translation of the New Testament in 1885. Between 1898 and 1902, a committee chaired by another Moravian missionary A. W. Heyde (1825–1907) prepared a revised version of the Tibetan New Testament under the sponsorship of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Later, Dr A. H. Francke (1870–1930) and his Ladakhi colleague Yoseb Gergan (1878–1946) translated the Old Testament into Classical Tibetan. The draft translation of the Old Testament was completed by 1935, but the full Tibetan Bible was
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Confraternity Bible


translated or revised by the CCD Publishers released "Confraternity Bibles" up to 1969, always indicating to what extent they featured Confraternity translations of the Old Testament. They typically included some variation on the following description of the edition's Old Testament contents: "With the New Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Translation of the First Eight Books, the Seven Sapiential Books, and the Eighteen Prophetic Books of the Old Testament. The balance is in the Douay Version." The Book of Psalms contained in a Confraternity Bible could be one of several
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Codex Amiatinus


the oldest bible where all the biblical books present what would be their Vulgate texts. It is named after the location in which it was found in modern times, Mount Amiata in Tuscany, at the Abbazia di San Salvatore and is now kept at Florence in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Amiatino 1). Designated by siglum A, it is commonly considered to provide the most reliable surviving representation of Jerome's Vulgate text for the books of the New Testament, and most of the Old Testament. As was standard in all Vulgate
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


the beginning of the second century the use of surrogates must have crowded out the Tetragram in both Testaments" (p. 77). Howard thus bases his hypothesis on the proposition that the Septuagint, the version of the Old Testament in Greek from which the first-century-CE authors of the New Testament drew their Old-Testament quotations, did not at that time contain the term κύριος that is found in the extant manuscripts of the full text of the Septuagint, all of which are of later date, but always had
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is also used of heathen gods. The other is Κύριος ("Lord"), which appears almost 600 times. In quotations from the Old Testament, it represents both יהוה (Yahweh) and אדני (Adonai), the latter name having been used in Jewish worship to replace the former, the speaking of which was avoided even in the solemn reading of sacred texts. No transcription of either of the Hebrew names יהוה and אדני appears in the existing text of the New Testament. In addition, the New Testament uses
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Criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses


of the fulfillment of Jesus' promise to the thief at Calvary. Also criticized is the NWT's insertion of the name "Jehovah" 237 times in the New Testament without extant New Testament Greek manuscript evidence that the name existed there. Watch Tower publications have claimed that the name was "restored" on a sound basis, stating that when New Testament writers quote earlier Old Testament scriptures containing the Tetragrammaton (יהוה), "the translator has the right to render Kyrios ("LORD") as Jehovah." The NWT
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Bible translations into Icelandic


reprinted in 1866, now as one volume with just the New Testament and Psalms and also another with the entire Old and New Testaments. Both the 1863 and 1866 editions were printed by the "Brit. Bible Soc." at Oxford, and this seems to be the translation in the illustrated New Testament of the Scripture Gift Mission in 1903 (London & Akureyri). By at least 1906, the British Bible Society (now printing in Reykjavík) put out a new New Testament translation based on the original texts, by
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God". The traditional reckoning of Rabbinic Judaism is that, of the various names of God, seven require special respect, and that other terms also in the Hebrew Bible are names of God. The "International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia" lists 8 personal names and 9 descriptive names of God in the Old Testament. Of the Old Testament names of God, that written with four letters in Hebrew (יהוה, YHWH) and therefore called the Tetragrammaton is so sacred that Jews do not speak it even in prayer. Scholars generally
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Jeremy (name)


Jeremy is a male given name of English origin. It is a variant of the name of the Old Testament biblical prophet "Jeremiah" in its anglicized and diminutive form. Given its linguistic evolution, the name "Jeremy", as a shortened version of "Jeremiah," is commonly recognized as a name of Christian New Testament origin with its beginnings first seen in bible translations, such as the New King James version of the Bible, that referred to the prophet "Jeremiah" as "Jeremy" in the New Testament
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New Testament


it. Books that later formed the New Testament, like other Christian literature of the period, originated in a literary context that reveals relationships not only to other Christian writings, but also to Graeco-Roman and Jewish works. Of singular importance is the extensive use of and interaction with the Jewish Bible and what would become the Christian Old Testament. Both implicit and explicit citations, as well as countless allusions, appear throughout the books of the New Testament, from the Gospels and Acts, to the Epistles, to the Apocalypse
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Christianity in the 2nd century


"gospels" and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament. A four gospel canon (the "Tetramorph") was asserted by Ireanaeus, who refers to it directly. The oldest list of books for the New Testament canon is the Muratorian fragment dating to c. 170. It shows that by 200 there existed a set of Christian writings somewhat similar to what is now the 27-book New Testament, which included the four gospels. Thus, while there was debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon,
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Old Testament


or more (Orthodox and other) books, divided, very broadly, into the Pentateuch (Torah), the historical books, the "wisdom" books and the prophets. The table uses the spellings and names present in modern editions of the Christian Bible, such as the Catholic New American Bible Revised Edition and the Protestant Revised Standard Version and English Standard Version. The spelling and names in both the 1609–10 Douay Old Testament (and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner (the edition
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Bible translations into Portuguese


Matthew was published in 1905. The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles appeared in 1906 and the whole of the New Testament in 1910. Finally the whole Bible, without the deuterocanonical books, came in 1917. It stayed rather close to the original texts, which in the eyes of people accustomed to the Almeida Version was a drawback. Another difficulty was its abandonment of the traditional Portuguese form of the Old Testament names, which were replaced by form closer to the Hebrew original, as in English. In 1932-
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House of Yahweh


original scriptures is 'The every word of Yahweh, the Law and the Prophets'. Unlike either Judaism or Christianity, and similarly to Armstrongism, they make no distinction between the Old Testament and the New Testament, claiming the New Testament is a continuation of the Old Testament, reaffirming and reestablishing it. In addition, the House of Yahweh rejects religious customs that conflict with their interpretation of the Torah. In an attempt to purify their religion from pagan elements, all pagan names, words, and concepts are eschewed. They
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Bible translations into Native South American languages


Old and New Testament 1996 New Testament 1992 New Testament 1997 New Testament 2011 Old and New Testament 2003 New Testament 2007 New Testament 2006 New Testament 2008 New Testament 1997 New Testament 2006 New Testament 2010 New Testament 2002 New Testament The translation of the Bible into Guaraní language is known as "Ñandejara Ñe'ê". Paulo and Quézia Oliveira have translated the New Testament and portions of the old Testament into the Tembé language. Luke was published in November 2008 and the whole New Testament is currently being published. Horst Stute's translation of Mark
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Thomas Forret


evil epistle or gospel in the New or Old Testament, then "spake my lord stoutlie and said, 'I thank God that I never knew what the Old and the New Testament was.'" This innocent instance of devout gratitude on the part of the bishop gave rise to a proverb in Scotland: "Ye are like the Bishop of Dunkeld that knew neither the new law nor the old law." Forret systematically warned his parishioners against the sellers of indulgences. He also took care specially to teach them the ten
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Goshen, Indiana


The New England Yankee population that founded towns such as Goshen considered themselves the "chosen people" and identified with the Israelites of the Old Testament and they thought of North America as their Canaan. They founded a large number of towns and counties across what is known as the Northern Tier of the upper midwest. It was in this context that Goshen was named. The Yankee migration to Indiana was a result of several factors, one of which was the overpopulation of New England. The old stock Yankee population had large families,
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us the one general name of God is split up into many names, expressive of the many-sided Being of God". Swiss theologian Emil Brunner, who "found that the phrases 'the name of God' and 'the name of the Lord' and their variants were used in nearly 100 passages in the Old Testament and in more than 200 passages in the New Testament", wrote that "the name of God stands for the selfhood of God and the manifestation of God's name stands for the action of
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Legion in popular culture


Legion, the demons of Gadarenes, is the name given in two of three New Testament accounts of the exorcism connected with the Gadarene swine. As the only named demons in the New Testament the name "Legion" has received frequent use in popular culture. The Christian New Testament gospels of Matthew (8:28-34), Mark and Luke describe an incident in which Jesus meets a man, or in Matthew two men, possessed by demons who, in the Mark and Luke versions, when asked what their name is,
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Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament


. In Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible the verse numbering is different (9:6 in the Christian Old Testament is numbered 9:5 in Hebrew Bible versions). Newer Jewish versions do not translate the verse as follows: This long name is the throne name of the royal child. Semitic names often consist of sentences that describe God; thus the name Isaiah in Hebrew means "Yahweh saves"; Hezekiah, "Yahweh strengthens"; in Akkadian, the name of the Babylonian king M'rodakh-Bal'adan (39:1) means "Marduk has
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Development of the New Testament canon


confessions of faith drawn up by Protestants, several identify by name the 27-books of the New Testament canon, including the French Confession of Faith (1559), the Belgic Confession (1561), and the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) during the English Civil War. The Thirty-Nine Articles, issued by the Church of England in 1563, names the books of the Old Testament, but not the New Testament. None of the Confessional statements issued by any Lutheran church includes an explicit list of canonical books. The
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Hakka Bible: Today's Taiwan Hakka Version


the Greek Septuagint to improve the accuracy and clarity of the text being translated. The "Taiwanese Hakka New Testament" along with the Book of Psalms were published in 1993. Work on the Old Testament was more challenging since the translators had to figure out what the Hakka equivalent for ‘seal’ or ‘signet ring’ should be, whether the land of "Sinim" refers to a place in Egypt or to China, and how the Lord ‘roars’ and ‘thunders’. The translation of the Old Testament in
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Old Testament


The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God. The second part of the Christian Bible is the New Testament. The books that comprise the Old Testament canon, as well as their order and names, differ between Christian denominations. The Catholic canon comprises 46 books, and the canons of the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental
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Old Testament


the people. The story of Jesus' death therefore involved a profound shift in meaning from the tradition of the Old Testament. The name "Old Testament" reflects Christianity's understanding of itself as the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy of a New Covenant (which is similar to "testament" and often conflated) to replace the existing covenant between God and Israel (Jeremiah 31:31). The emphasis, however, has shifted from Judaism's understanding of the covenant as a racially or tribally-based contract between God and Jews to
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Psalms of Asaph


The Psalms of Asaph are the twelve psalms numbered as 50 and 73–83 in the Masoretic Text, and as 49 and 72–82 in the Septuagint. They are located in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible (what is also called the Old Testament). Scholars have determined that a psalm's attribution to Asaph can mean a variety of things. It could mean that the psalms were a part of a collection from the Asaphites, a name commonly used to identify temple singers. Another possibility is that the psalms were performed in
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Old Testament theology


approach to biblical interpretation in which an element within the Old Testament is perceived to suggest one found within the New Testament. The first is seen as the type and the completion is recognized as what Bernard Ramm described as the antitype. The type or antitype can be an event, person, or event; however, often the type is related to the messiah and often connected to the idea of salvation. "The use of Biblical typology enjoyed greater popularity in previous centuries, although even now it is by no means ignored as
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Peshitta


. Mark has even been credited in ancient Syriac tradition with translating his own gospel (written in Latin, according to this account) and the other books of the New Testament into Syriac. What Theodore of Mopsuestia says of the Old Testament is true of both: "These Scriptures were translated into the tongue of the Syriacs by someone indeed at some time, but who on earth this was has not been made known down to our day". F. Crawford Burkitt concluded that the translation of the Old Testament was probably the work
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Human nature


justice and rectitude ... which are implanted by nature" all people. Adam embodied the "whole of human nature" so when Adam sinned "all of human nature sinned". The Old Testament does not explicitly link the "corruption of human nature" to Adam's sin. However, the "universality of sin" implies a link to Adam. In the New Testament, Paul concurs with the "universality of sin". He also makes explicit what the Old Testament implied: the link between humanity's "sinful nature
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


the divine name in Aramaic script in quotations from the Old Testament." The Jewish custom of writing the tetragrammaton in Hebrew characters within the Greek text continued in the first centuries CE. The autograph New Testament manuscripts were lost, and it is widely accepted that were from Jewish origin, (i.e. Richard Bauckham, Professor at the University of St. Andrews and Mark Allan Powell, Professor of New Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary). The oldest known formula_1 is a Christian manuscript, and it is assumed that "nomina sacra" were
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


absent. Robert Shedinger (Professor of Religion at Luther College) quoting Howard and internal evidence of the "Diatessaron", gives θεος as an intermediate change before κυριος in the New Testament Greek copies, like Kristin De Troyer (Professor of Old Testament at the University of Salzburg) proposed it in the Old Testament. In Rev. 1:4 appears ὁ ὤν and Gerard Mussies postulated an original tetrapuncta, and F. Shaw "points to other instances in Revelation that could support this position (Rev 1.8, 4.8, 2.13)." The
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


presenting the New Testament authors as writing the Tetragrammaton יהוה (in Hebrew or paleo-Hebrew script or at least in the Greek transcription ΙΑΩ) in their own compositions, and not only in quotations from the (Septuagint) Old Testament. Each group uses its own judgment in choosing which instances of the words κύριος and θεός outside the Old Testament quotations to translate as having originally been written not as κύριος and θεός but as some representation of the Tetragrammaton. In this, the groups also go beyond the distinction that all modern translators
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Bible translations into Spanish


, Inc. with an introduction by J.A. Alvarez under the title Las Sagradas Escrituras, Versión Israelita Nazarena (The Sacred Scriptures, Israelite Nazarene Version) in Puerto Rico in 2012. The Old Testament books follow the same order as the Jewish Bible and also includes Psalm 151. This translation is only available in Spanish. The Old Testament is based on the Hebrew Masoretic Text while the New Testament is based on the Novum Testamentum of Westcott & Hort (The New Testament in the Original Greek). This translation uses the divine name of
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Biblical studies


the traditional view, it asks when and where a particular text originated; how, why, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances it was produced; what influences were at work in its production; what sources were used in its composition; and what message it was intended to convey. It will vary slightly depending on whether the focus is on the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, the letters of New Testament or the canonical gospels. It also plays an important role in the quest for a historical Jesus
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Hebrew name


". James I of England commissioned a translation of the Christian Bible from the original languages, including a translation of the Tanakh or Old Testament from Hebrew into English. This became known as the King James Version of the Bible, often referred to today by the abbreviation "KJV". Even so, many KJV Old Testament names were not entirely without New Testament Greek influence. This influence mostly reflected the vowels of names, leaving most of the consonants largely intact, only modestly filtered to consonants of contemporary English phonology. However
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The Bible and violence


Phyllis Trible) says the Bible is filled with "texts of terror" but he also asserts these texts are not to be taken literally. Jenkins says eighth century BCE historians added them to embellish their ancestral history and get readers' attention. Old Testament scholar Ellen Davis is concerned by what she calls a "shallow reading" of Scripture, particularly of 'Old Testament' texts concerning violence, which she defines as a "reading of what we think we already know instead of an attempt to dig deeper for new insights and
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Mahalalel


Mahalalel or Mahalaleel was a patriarch named in the Hebrew Bible. The King James Version spells his name Mahalaleel in the Old Testament and Maleleel in the New Testament. Mahalalel was a son of Kenan, son of Enos, son of Seth, son of Adam in the Old Testament of the Bible. He was also the father of Jared. In Judaeo-Christian mythology Mahalalel is an ancestor of Noah, and thus, of all humanity. He appears in the Book of Genesis 5:12-17, and according to the book
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures


thousands of copies of the Greek New Testament that not once does the tetragrammaton appear." However, the translators of the "New World Translation" believed that the name "Jehovah" was present in the original manuscripts of the New Testament when quoting from the Old Testament, but replaced with the other terms by later copyists. Based on this reasoning, the translators consider to have "restored the divine name", though it is not present in any extant manuscripts. In 1984, a "Reference" edition of the "
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Johannes Alberti


. To make this work as complete as possible, he searched relentlessly and collected new sources everywhere. Among the papers presented to him for this purpose by Hamburg professor Johann Albert Fabricius was an old unpublished Greek dictionary of the New Testament. Comparing this with another he found later in the library of the University of Leiden and with a very old manuscript offered to him by his friend, the scholar Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Alberti succeeded in enriching the study of the Greek language with a new Greek dictionary of the New Testament, coupled with
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Malachi


possibly before his return, comparing with ( with ). In the Septuagent or Greek Old Testament, the Prophetic Books are placed last, making Book of Malachi the last protocanonical book before the Deuterocanonical books or The New Testament. According to the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, it is possible that Malachi is not a proper name, but simply means "messenger of YHWH". The Greek Old Testament superscription is ἐν χειρὶ ἀγγέλου αὐτοῦ, (by the hand of his messenger). Because Malachi's name does not occur elsewhere
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Bible moralisée


outside the ranks of the clergy and the monks. So frescoes of scenes from the Old and New Testaments, stained-glass windows, and the like were set up in the churches, because, as the Synod of Arras (1025) said, "The illiterate contemplated in the lineaments of painting what they, having never learnt to read, could not discern in writing". Pictures spread abroad a knowledge of the events recorded in the Bible and of the mutual connection between the leading facts of the Old and New Testaments
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Origen


Nonetheless, Origen did have a penchant for speculating beyond what was explicitly stated in the Bible, and this habit frequently placed him in the hazy realm between strict orthodoxy and heresy. According to Origen, there are two kinds of Biblical literature, which are found in both the Old and New Testaments: "historia" ("history, or narrative") and "nomothesia" ("legislation or ethical prescription"). Origen expressly states that the Old and New Testaments should be read together and according to the same rules
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Development of the New Testament canon


the Apostles, the Books of Criapos, and the ever-popular Epistle of Barnabas. The Armenian Apostolic church at times has included the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs in its Old Testament and the Third Epistle to the Corinthians, but does not always list them with the other 27 canonical New Testament books. The New Testament of the Coptic Bible, adopted by the Egyptian Church, includes the two Epistles of Clement. The canon of the Tewahedo Churches is somewhat looser than for other traditional Christian groups, and the order, naming
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Catholic Bible


books (see, for instance, Esdras#Differences in names). Greek Orthodox generally consider the Septuagint to be divinely inspired no less than the Hebrew text of the Old Testament books. The Bible of the Tewahedo Churches differs from the Western and Greek Orthodox Bibles in the order, naming, and chapter/verse division of some of the books. The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible includes 81 books altogether: The 27 books of the New Testament; the Old Testament books found in the Septuagint and that are accepted by the Eastern Orthodox (more
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Ithamar (bishop)


the Old Testament. Although a number of new Anglo-Saxon bishops had taken new names upon either entering religious life or upon consecration as bishops, these names were usually taken from church history. The practice of taking a new name from the Old Testament was extremely rare in the Roman tradition, but did occur more often in the Celtic Church. As bishop, Ithamar consecrated Deusdedit as the first Saxon archbishop of Canterbury on 26 March 655. Ithamar died between 655 and 664, probably close to 656, at Rochester. After
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Names of God in Christianity


jealous God. (1582 edition of Douay–Rheims Version Bible). While the Old Testament has a wide variety of names and epithets that refer to God in Hebrew, the Greek text of the New Testament uses far fewer variants. The essential uses of the name of God the Father in the New Testament are "Theos" (θεός the Greek term for God), "Kyrios" (i.e. Lord in Greek) and "Patēr" (πατήρ i.e. Father in Greek). The Aramaic word "Abba" (
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Christian biblical canons


several books considered as apocryphal by the council: Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Esdras, and 4 Esdras. Several Protestant confessions of faith identify the 27 books of the New Testament canon by name, including the French Confession of Faith (1559), the Belgic Confession (1561), and the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647). The Thirty-Nine Articles, issued by the Church of England in 1563, names the books of the Old Testament, but not the New Testament. The Belgic Confession and Westminster Confession named
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Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs


implication that the Old Testament is outdated or inferior. They believe that the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) contain prophecy that was fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and that the books of the Christian Greek Scriptures (New Testament) are primarily directed to the 144,000 chosen by God for life in heaven. The Watch Tower Society's "New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures"—the main translation used by Jehovah's Witnesses—renders the name of God as "Jehovah", rather than ' or ' as found in English translations such as the
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Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament


Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament was edited by G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, and published by Baker Books in 2007. It is a comprehensive Bible commentary on Old Testament references within the New Testament. The editors headed a team of scholars to identify, explain and comment on both the direct quotations within the text of the New Testament and its many other probable allusions to the Old. In a 2008 interview, Beale explained that the writers eclectically extended the historical-grammatical method of exegesis, seeking
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Bible translations into Uyghur


, Dr. Nur Luke (a Uyghur), Moulvi Munshi, and Moulvi Fazil, completed the translation of the Uyghur Bible in India. This, and a revision of the New Testament, was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1950, in Cairo. The reformation of the Uyghur Arabic alphabet in the 1930s-1950s rendered the translations done by the Swedish missionaries obsolete. A new Bible translation had to be translated. The Uyghur Bible Society has published the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament into modern Uyghur. Another
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Bible translations into Afrikaans


in this translation sounds rather old-fashioned. Following the popularity of Eugene Peterson's The Message translation, Stephan Joubert translated the New Testament in a similar idiomatic style of Afrikaans (but without the slang that characterised Peterson's translation), and gave it a similar name, that was published in 2002 as Die Boodskap. With the assistance of Jan van der Watt, the Old Testament was translated and published in 2006, along with improvements in the New Testament translation. Die Boodskap was recently included in the Youversion app as a
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Bible translations into Finnish


equivalence, and it aims to use ordinary standard Finnish. The initial edition consisted of only the New and Old Testaments: the translation of the Old Testament deuterocanonicals were finished only in 2004. "Uusi kirkkoraamattu" was criticized by some as deviating from the original text because of its contextual translation. These critiques sparked a new translation, "Raamattu kansalle" (Bible for the People), 1999/2012. It strives to use modern Finnish. Another new translation, "Jumalan Kansan Pyhä Raamattu" (1992; Holy Bible of the
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Progressive dispensationalism


the New Testament (outside of the gospels), then that may imply that the present dispensation is no longer a parenthesis, but has a relationship or connection with the prior dispensation. In contrast, progressives, instead of approaching all Old Testament quotations in the New Testament as application, attempt to take into account the context and grammatical-historical features of both Old Testament and New Testament texts. An Old Testament quote in the New Testament might turn out to be an application, but it also might be a partial fulfillment or
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Sacred Name Bible


Sacred Name Bibles are Bible translations that consistently use Hebraic forms of God's personal name, instead of its English language translation, in both the Old and New Testaments. Some Bible versions, such as the Jerusalem Bible, employ the name Yahweh, a transliteration of Hebrew YHWH, in the English text of the Old Testament, where traditional English versions have . Most sacred name versions use the name Yahshua, a Semitic form of the name Jesus. None of the Sacred Name Bibles are published by mainstream publishers. Instead, most
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New Testament


The New Testament (, transl. ; ) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first being the Old Testament. The New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. Christians regard both the Old and New Testaments together as sacred scripture. The New Testament is a collection of Christian texts originally written in the Koine Greek language, at different times by various different authors. While the Old Testament canon varies somewhat between different Christian denominations, the 27-book canon
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Place names of Palestine


Places in the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, with their Modern Identifications" (1895) lists more than 1,150 place names related to the Old Testament and 162 related to the New, most of which are located in Palestine. These surveys by Robinson the PEF, and other Western biblical geographers in late 19th and early 20th centuries, also eventually contributed to the shape of the borders delineated for the British Mandate in Palestine, as proposed by the League of Nations. With the establishment of Israel, in parts of Palestine
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Messianic Bible translations


the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) ordering for the books of the Old Testament, both testaments being named their Hebrew names ("Tanakh" and "Brit Cadasha"). This approach also includes the New Testament being translated with the preference of spelling names (people, concepts and place names) in transliterated Hebrew rather than directly translated from Greek into English. Some Sacred Name Bibles such as the "Hallelujah Scriptures", conform to these elements and are therefore may be considered Messianic Bibles as well. The "Complete Jewish Bible
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Women in Christianity


The New Testament written record of their efforts in this regard is found in  , , , and , , , , and Christianity emerged from Judaism. As may be seen throughout the Old Testament and in the Greco-Roman culture of New Testament times, patriarchal societies placed men in positions of authority in marriage, society and government. The New Testament only records males being named among the 12 original apostles of Jesus Christ. Yet, women were the first to discover the Resurrection of Christ. Clerical (clergy) ordination and the
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


tetragrammaton (YHWH) is not found in any extant New Testament manuscript, all of which have the word "Kyrios" ("Lord") or "Theos" ("God") in Old Testament quotes where the Hebrew text has the tetragrammaton, George Howard published in 1977 a thesis that Robert F. Shedinger calls "revolutionary" and "somewhat speculative", and whose "revolutionary theological ramifications" Howard himself drew out. He proposed that the original texts of the New Testament had "YHWH" (either in Hebrew
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


the Greek New Testament. In 1997, Matteo Pierro drew up a list of 135 translations in various languages that, he said, used "Jehovah", "Yahweh" or related forms in the New Testament. This affirmation is not found in Pierro's 1997 article "JHWH: il Tetragramma nel Nuovo Testamento", nor is it referred to in the response, "Il nome divino nel Nuovo Testamento", by Carmelo Savasta. As indicated above, capitalization of "Lord" in quotations from the Old Testament is a
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Names and titles of God in the New Testament


from about the year 100 put the Greek words Κύριος ("Lord") and Θεός ("God") in its place. In contrast to the variety of absolute or personal names of God in the Old Testament, the New Testament as now known uses only two, according to the "International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia". Of the two, Θεὀς ("God") is the more common, appearing in the text over a thousand times. In its true sense it expresses essential Deity, but by accommodation it
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Patience (poem)


that Pearl does not have. For instance, both homilies clearly follow the same pattern: 1. statement of theme, 2. announcement of the text from the New Testament, 3. discussion of another passage from the New Testament in elucidation of that text, 4. and elaborate paraphrase of "exemplum" or "exempla", from the Old Testament. A didactic, homiletic poem, “Patience” consists of 530 lines. Alliteration is used consistently throughout the poem, usually with three alliterating words per line. The
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Bible translations into Greek


in the Greek Evangelical Church and is also recognized by the Orthodox Church. Meanwhile, a team of 12 professors from the theological schools of the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki had been working since the mid 1960s on another translation into the modern vernacular (Demotic Greek), with support from the Hellenic Bible Society. The translation of the New Testament, first published in 1985, was based on a critical text of the Koine Greek (κοινή) in which the New Testament was originally written. The translation of the Old Testament from
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Christophany


term in conservative Christian publications related to Old Testament appearances of Christ has multiplied exponentially. A New Testament Christophany is Paul's vision of Christ on the road to Damascus, and the subsequent one of Ananias. Another New Testament example is John's vision of the Son of Man, recounted in Revelation 1:12-18. was regarded by most Church Fathers and medieval commentators as an appearance by the Logos, or pre-existent Christ, and in art God was always given the features of Jesus until about 1400. A popular Christian
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New Earth (Christianity)


visual language, God allows John to see the glory and beauty of the inheritance of His people. The first thing the reader notices about this vision is that it includes a "new heavens and a new earth" (). To understand what the Bible teaches about eternity, the reader of the Apocalypse must understand the New Testament doctrine of the "New Heavens and the New Earth." The basic difference with the promises of the Old Testament is that in Revelation they also have an ontological value (: "Then I saw
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Bible translations into Burmese


Bible League International, has produced a translation of the New Testament called "Easy-to-Read" version. This translation is said to be translated from the original languages to common, basic Burmese. Its translation method is equivalent to the English version with the same name. As the name implies, the translation process emphasised and prioritised convenient readability. Myanmar Standard Bible (New Testament) was published by the Global Bible Initiative on January 2014. The translation for the Old Testament is in progress and the book of Psalms,
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Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament


the books of Samuel, a compendium of rabbinic folklore, historical anecdotes and moral exhortations, is messianically interpreted. One of the first claims in the New Testament that Isaiah 53 is a prophecy of Jesus comes from the Book of Acts chapter 8 verses 26-36, which describes a scene in which God commands Philip the Apostle to approach an Ethiopian eunuch who is sitting in a chariot, reading aloud to himself from the Book of Isaiah. The eunuch comments that he does not understand what he is reading (Isaiah 53)
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Angelo Traina


, but instead converted, joining a Protestant church. He later worked for Aimee Semple McPherson. His Biblical studies resulted in his translating "The Sacred Name New Testament" (1950), with C. O. Dodd, the first example of a sacred name Bible. He went on to translate the Hebrew and Aramaic scriptures also, in "The Holy Name Bible containing the Holy Name Version of the Old and New Testaments" (1963). A fifth edition was published in 1989 by the Scripture Research Association, based in New
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Jah


" is found. The "New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures", used primarily by Jehovah's Witnesses, employs "Jah" in the Hebrew Scriptures, and translates "Hallelujah" as "Praise Jah" in the Greek Scriptures. The Divine Name King James Bible employs "JAH" in 50 instances within the Old Testament according to the Divine Name Concordance of the Divine Name King James Bible, Second Edition. The Spanish language Reina Valera Bible employs "JAH" in 21 instances within the Old Testament according to the
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Confraternity Bible


. Quite to the contrary, they continued, as the CCD's Old Testament from the outset was "Translated from the Original Languages with Critical Use of All the Ancient Sources" – an approach that was presumably in complete accord with the September 1943 encyclical. What is known of the Confraternity's Old Testament translation is that it was completed in stages beginning in 1948 and ending in 1969. Volumes were released serially by St. Anthony Guild Press in New Jersey as they were completed. Their publishing history is as follows: These translations
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