Why is Tobit not in the Protestant Bible? Why is the Book of Ruth included in the Bible? In the Bible, why was Lamentations written? What Bible story might work as the subject of an Oratorio, and why? Why is the Book of Esther not in the Apocrypha?
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Over the next seven years, 47 scholars and theologians worked to translate the different books of the Bible: the Old Testament from Hebrew, the New Testament from Greek and the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin. Much of the resulting translation drew on the work of the Protestant reformerWilliam ...
Mark 9:11 They asked Jesus, "Why do the legal experts say that Elijah must come first?"... Read verse in Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
The Alexandrian Text-- once identified as the Minority Text or the Egyptian Text-- with its non-Biblical Apocrypha and Gnostic tendencies were used to produce the Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament (1881), which are found in those modern translations. "18 For I testify unto every man that hea...
These were provincial councils that had no authority for the church universally, and their decrees on the Apocrypha were never accepted in the church as a whole. The church adopted the views of many of the Eastern Fathers such as Origen and Athanasius and Western Fathers such as Jerome. It ...
Sandmel, Samuel, M. Jack Suggs, and Arnold J. Tkacik, eds.The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Shakespeare, William. 1605. “The Tragedy of King Lear.” InThe Riverside Shakespeare,edited by G. Blakemore Evans, 1240-305...
Somewhere in Second Maccabees, found in Catholic Bibles, but accounted apocrypha by Protestants, is the saying "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead so that they can be loosed from their sins." frankbeswick on 10/28/2018 Prayer for the dead arises out of the Catholi...
The Christian Bible details the creation of humans, their rebellion against God, and God's sacrifice through his son Jesus in order to restore humans to their rightful place in his kingdom. It also describes the architect behind humanity's suffering, a cunning, manipulative creature named Satan...
Why did Paul write the Book of Ephesians in the Bible?Question:Why did Paul write the Book of Ephesians in the Bible?The Apostle Paul:The Apostle Paul was one of the leaders of the Early Church. Before he converted to Christianity, his name was Saul. He helped the Sanhedrin track down...