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Bibleman
Bibleman is an American Christian children's superhero franchise about Miles Peterson, created by Pamplin Entertainment in the mid-1990s with Willie Aames, later rebooted as a 26-episode animated series.
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, abbreviated BHS, is a critical edition of the Masoretic Text published by the German Bible Society, transcribing the Leningrad Codex of 1008 with a text-critical apparatus.
Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement are the length, weight, and capacity units of the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature, including the cubit, shekel, ephah, and bath.
Biblical apocrypha
The biblical apocrypha, also called the Old Testament apocrypha, are early Jewish religious writings composed between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE.
Biblical Aramaic
Biblical Aramaic, the Aramaic portions of the Hebrew Bible in Ezra, Daniel, Jeremiah 10:11, and Genesis 31:47, a form of Achaemenid Official Aramaic written in the square script and preserved with Masoretic vowels.
Biblical archaeology
Biblical archaeology: the study of remains of the peoples, cultures, and periods in which the biblical texts were formed. Covers the Albright school, minimalist-maximalist debate, and heritage politics in Israel-Palestine.
Biblical canon
The biblical canon is the list of books a religious community regards as authoritative Scripture, with Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Ethiopian lists differing in book count.
Biblical clothing
Biblical clothing: dress of ancient Israel and the biblical eastern Mediterranean, from wool and linen tunics, himation cloaks, and nailless sandals to the Exodus 28 priestly vestments, known from texts, Dura-Europos art, and Dead Sea cave textile finds.
Biblical criticism
Biblical criticism, also called higher or historical criticism, is the scholarly study of the Bible's text, authorship, and composition using historical and literary criteria, spanning textual criticism, source, form, and redaction criticism, and the Documentary Hypothesis.
Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew, the Canaanite Northwest Semitic language of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), distinct from the Aramaic of Daniel and Ezra; periodized as Archaic, Standard, and Late Biblical Hebrew, attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Masoretic Text.
Biblical Hebrew orthography
Biblical Hebrew orthography is the writing system of the Hebrew Bible, a consonantal text with matres lectionis for vowels, later supplemented by Masoretic vowel points, accents, and annotations.
Biblical hermeneutics
Biblical hermeneutics, also called scriptural interpretation, is the study of principles for interpreting the Bible. Covers the medieval fourfold sense, Spinoza and historical criticism, and post-1970s canonical, literary, and reader-centered approaches.
Biblical inerrancy
Biblical inerrancy is the doctrine that the Bible's original manuscripts are free from all error, including in history and science, defined by the 1978 Chicago Statement.
Biblical languages
Biblical languages, also called languages of the Bible, are Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, and Koine Greek, the original languages of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament.
Biblical Magi
Biblical Magi: the star-following visitors from the East in Matthew 2:1-12 who brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Jesus. Also called the Three Kings (Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar); the number, names, and crowns are later tradition, not in the Gospel.
Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript, also called a Bible manuscript, is a handwritten copy of a Bible book in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek, or an ancient translation.
Biblical numerology
Biblical numerology, also called Bible numerics, is the study of numbers that recur in the Bible with apparent significance, spanning symbolic numbers like 7 and 12, gematria, and the 666 of Revelation.
Biblical Sabbath
The Biblical Sabbath, or Sabbath in the Bible, is the seventh-day day of rest, from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday, commanded in the Hebrew Bible.
Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba: UNESCO World Heritage serial property (2005) of three Israeli settlement mounds with biblical cities, Bronze and Iron Age remains, and Iron Age underground water systems, tied to 1 Kings 9:15.
Bibliographic coupling
Bibliographic coupling is a bibliometric method measuring the similarity of two publications by counting the references they share, introduced by M. M. Kessler at MIT in 1963.
Bibliographic Treatise of the Book of Han
The Bibliographic Treatise of the Book of Han (汉书·艺文志) is the oldest extant book catalog in East Asia, compiled by Ban Gu in the early Eastern Han.
Bibliography
Bibliography (from Greek biblion, book): a systematic, standardized list of sources consulted or relevant, spanning enumerative, descriptive, and analytical branches, national bibliographies, annotated bibliographies, and modern bibliographic databases and standards.
Bibliography of Ayn Rand and Objectivism
Bibliography of Ayn Rand and Objectivism: her four novels (1936-1957), essay collections, the Objectivist periodicals (1962-1976), posthumous edited works, Peikoff's OPAR (1991), the Ayn Rand Lexicon, and scholarly references.
Bibliography of Swami Vivekananda
Bibliography of Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), Hindu monk: lifetime books Karma Yoga, Raja Yoga, Jnana Yoga (1896–1902), nine-volume Complete Works, Bengali Vani o Rachana, and major biographies by Nikhilananda, Rolland, and Medhananda.
Bibliomania (ビブリオマニア) (manga)
Bibliomania (ビブリオマニア, BIBLIOMANIA) is a 12-chapter Japanese web manga by ORVAL (story) and Macchiro (art), serialized on KAI-YOU.net 2016–2018, an Alice-in-Wonderland-based SF dark fantasy published in one print volume and translated into Spanish, French, and Italian.
Bibliometric analysis
Bibliometric analysis, or bibliometric network analysis, is a research method that quantifies scientific outputs statistically and maps a field's intellectual structure through co-citation, co-authorship, and co-word networks.
Bibliometric mapping
Bibliometric mapping, also called science mapping, is a bibliometrics method that visualizes and clusters publications, authors, or keywords to reveal the structure and development of research fields.
Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics: quantitative study of academic publishing using statistics on publications, metadata, and citations. Related to scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics, altmetrics; key indicators include impact factor and h-index.
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE): Spain's national library in Madrid, founded by Felipe V in 1711 and opened 1712 as Real Biblioteca Pública; renamed Biblioteca Nacional in 1836; custodian of legal deposit and of the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.
Biblioteka dlya Chteniya
Biblioteka dlya Chteniya (Russian: «Библиотека для чтения», Library for Reading) was a monthly Russian literary journal published in Saint Petersburg from 1834 to 1865, the first mass-circulation thick journal in Russia.