Bible
The Bible is defined as a book of religious scriptures.
(noun)An example of Bible is the 66 books of the Old Testament and New Testament in the Christian religion.
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noun
- the sacred book of Christianity; Old Testament and New Testament: some Roman Catholic versions also include all or part of the Apocrypha
- the Holy Scriptures of Judaism, identical with the Old Testament of Christianity
- a copy or particular edition of the Scriptures
- any collection or book of writings sacred to a religion: the Koran is the Muslim Bible
- any book regarded as authoritative or official
Origin: ME & OFr < ML biblia < Gr, collection of writings, in LGr(Ec), the Scriptures (pl. of biblion, book) < biblos, papyrus, after Byblos (now Dschebēl), Phoen city from which papyrus was imported
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noun
- a. The sacred book of Christianity, a collection of ancient writings including the books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament.b. The Hebrew Scriptures, the sacred book of Judaism.c. A particular copy of a Bible: the old family Bible.d. A book or collection of writings constituting the sacred text of a religion.
- often bible A book considered authoritative in its field: the bible of French cooking.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Late Latin biblia
Origin: , from Greek
Origin: , pl. of biblion, book, diminutive of biblos, papyrus, book
Origin: , from Bublos, Byblos
.Books of the Bible
Books of the Hebrew Scriptures appear as listed in the translation by the Jewish Publication Society of America. Books of the Christian Bible appear as listed in the Jerusalem Bible, a 1966 translation of the 1956 French Roman Catholic version. The Old Testament books shown in italic are considered apocryphal in many Christian churches, but they are accepted as canonical in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian and the Ethiopian Oriental Orthodox Church. The Christian Old Testament parallels the Hebrew Scriptures with the exception of these books.
| HEBREW SCRIPTURES | CHRISTIAN BIBLE | |
|---|---|---|
| The Torah | Old Testament | New Testament |
| Genesis | Genesis | Matthew |
| Exodus | Exodus | Mark |
| Leviticus | Leviticus | Luke |
| Numbers | Numbers | John |
| Deuteronomy | Deuteronomy | Acts of the Apostles |
| The Prophets | Joshua | Romans |
| Joshua | Judges | I Corinthians |
| Judges | Ruth | II Corinthians |
| I Samuel | I Samuel | Galatians |
| II Samuel | II Samuel | Ephesians |
| I Kings | I Kings | Phillipians |
| II Kings | II Kings | Colossians |
| Isaiah | I Chronicles | I Thessalonians |
| Jeremiah | II Chronicles | II Thessalonians |
| Ezekiel | Ezra | I Timothy |
| Hosea | Nehemiah | II Timothy |
| Joel | Tobit | Titus |
| Amos | Judith | Philemon |
| Obadiah | Esther | Hebrews |
| Jonah | I Maccabees | James |
| Micah | II Maccabees | I Peter |
| Nahum | Job | II Peter |
| Habakkuk | Psalms | I John |
| Zephaniah | Proverbs | II John |
| Haggai | Ecclesiastes | III John |
| Zechariah | Song of Songs (Song of Solomon) | Jude |
| Malachi | Wisdom of Solomon | Revelation |
| The Writings | Ecclesiasticus | |
| Psalms | Isaiah | |
| Proverbs | Jeremiah | |
| Job | Lamentations | |
| Song of Songs | Baruch | |
| Ruth | Ezekiel | |
| Lamentations | Daniel | |
| Ecclesiastes | Hosea | |
| Esther | Joel | |
| Daniel | Amos | |
| Ezra | Obadiah | |
| Nehemiah | Jonah | |
| I Chronicles | Micah | |
| II Chronicles | Nahum | |
| Habakkuk | ||
| Zephaniah | ||
| Haggai | ||
| Zechariah | ||
| Malachi | ||
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Bible
See also books; catholicism; christianity; god and gods; hell; heresy; judaism; protestantism; religion; theology.
1. religious writings of disputed origin, regarded by many author-ities as uncanonical.
2. (capitalized) a group of 15 books, not part of the canonical Hebrew Bible, but present in the Septuagint and Vulgate and hence accepted by some as biblical. —apocryphal, adj.
a strict following of the teachings of the Bible.
1. an expert in biblical text and exegesis.
2. a person who strictly follows the teachings of the Bible.
biblioclasm
the destruction of books, especially the Bible. —biblioclast, n.
a person who respects the Bible excessively and interprets it literally.
a form of divination using books, especially the Bible, in which passages are chosen at random and the future foretold from them.
dittology
a doublé reading or interpretation, especially of a Bible passage.
eisegesis
the introduction by an interpreter of his own ideas into a text under explication.
the author of part of the first six books in the Old Testament, so named because of references to God as Elohim. Cf. Yahwist.
critical explication or interpretation of Scripture.
the branch of theology that specializes in interpretation, or exegesis, of Biblical literature. Historically, exegetes have recognized four levels of meaning in the Bible: the historical or literal, the allegorical, the moral, and the anagogical or mystical, putting emphasis on the necessity of a foundation for the latter three in the literal sense. —exegete, n.
an exegete; one skilled in exegesis.
the rationale of conservative American Protestants who regard the Bible as free of errors or contradictions and emphasize its literal interpretation, usually without reference to modern scholarship. Also called literalism. —fundamentalist, n., adj.
the science of interpretation and explanation, especially the branch of theology that deals with the general principles of Biblical interpretation. —hermeneut, hermeneutist, n.
the analysis of Biblical materials that aims to ascertain, from internal evidence, authorship, date, and intent. Cf. Lower Criticism.
Hutchinsonianism
1. the theories of John Hutchinson, an 18th-century Yorkshireman, who disputed Newton’s theory of gravitation and maintained that a system of natural science was to be found in the Old Testament.
2. the tenets of the followers of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, an antinomian who lived in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony. —Hutchinsonian, adj.
inspirationism
the belief in inspiration arising from the Scriptures. —inspirationist, n. —inspirative, adj.
a branch of theology that is introductory to actual exegesis, empha-sizing the literary and cultural history of Biblical writings. —isagogic, adj.
a reading from a text, especially a reading from the Bible as part of a church service.
a list of the lections, or texts, to be read in church services through-out the canonical year.
1. fundamentalism.
2. Scripturalism. —literalist, n., adj.
the study of Biblical materials that intends to reconstruct their original texts in preparation for the tasks of Higher Criticism. Cf. Higher Criticism.
the spurious writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be biblical in character, as the Books of Enoch. —pseudepigraphic, pseudepigraphical, pseudepigraphous, adj.
Scripturalism
a strict compliance with the literal interpretation of the Bible. Also called literalism.
synoptist
a Biblical scholar who arranges side-by-side excerpts from the first three Gospels to show their resemblances in event, chronology, and language. —synoptic, adj.
Targumist
1. the writer of a Targum, a translation or paraphrase into Aramaic of a portion of the Old Testament.
2. an authority on Targumic literature. —Targumic, Targumistic, adj.
the practice of adhering strictly to the Scriptures. —textualist, textuary, n.
a textualist.
tropist
a person who explains the Scriptures in terms of tropes, or figures of speech.
a method of interpreting biblical literature emphasizing the moral implications of the tropes, or figures of speech, used in its composition. —tropological, adj.
the analysis of symbolism, especially of the meaning of Scripture types. —typologist, n. —typological, adj.
the author of part of the first six books in the Old Testament, so named because of numerous references therein to God as Yahweh (Jehovah). Cf. Elohist.
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