Why are Protestant and Catholic Bibles different?Elesha Coffman
We don’t know how true they are, but the fact that there are so many different stories from different origins, these are not just versions of the same story. There are a lot of different stories, some of them completely contradictory that are nevertheless quite old and may suggest that ...
Technically,allBible translations mix the two approaches—no approach is purely word-for-word or purely thought-for-thought. Many Bibles tend toward one approach, but all fall somewhere in between the two extremes. Some Bible translations do make a special effort to evenly ba...
Hanukkah is being celebrated right now, and one of the first questions people ask is why there are so many different spellings. Which is the real, correct spelling? If you want to know the truth, here it is: I know, I know, seeing a Hebrew word is unsatisfying. ּּBut the true...
Believe it or not the furniture used by hotels is a large reason why you may see fewer Bibles. A lot of modern hotels are moving to different styles of furniture that don’t include bulky nightstands with drawers. This means that a hotel would be forced to place a Bible prominently on...
Remarkably, if you go back 500 years, there were monks who used to write out Bibles, whose jobs disappeared when the printing press came along. But what we’re seeing now is a different speed and scale at which these jobs have been displaced by technology. We’re increasingly seeing more...
the invention of the printing press, it was politicians, kings and rulers who, through many differing translations from and into many different languages made the political decisions as to which stories, which books and which versions of them would be contained in the Bibles from their own ...
(Laughs) There are parts within myself that I can access particularly for the emotional stakes and then in terms of the characterization I try to create really rich backstories so they feel like real people. I make character bibles for every film that I do and they are abou...
2. The Jews and the Christians had so many different sects and interpretation of Scriptures. 3. The Christians during 600 AD. had different sects in regard the person of Christ. 4. Christ never accused the Jews of changing the Old Testament. ...
Why does God seem different in the Old Testament versus in the New Testament? Why is the Torah important to Judaism? Why was the Book of Galatians written? Why is circumcision so important in the Bible? How were the books of the New Testament chosen?