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Book of Jeremiah (ספר ירמיהו)
The Book of Jeremiah (ספר ירמיהו) is a Hebrew prophetic book of 52 chapters on the prophet Jeremiah, the longest book of the Hebrew Bible by word count.
Book of Job (ספר איוב)
The Book of Job (ספר איוב) is a book of the Hebrew Bible's Ketuvim telling of a righteous man who argues with God about suffering.
Book of Joel
The Book of Joel is a short prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible's Twelve, built around a devastating locust plague, the "day of the LORD," and a promise of restoration.
Book of Jonah (ספר יונה)
The Book of Jonah (ספר יונה) is a four-chapter narrative book in the Hebrew Bible telling of a prophet who flees God's mission to Nineveh and is swallowed by a great fish.
Book of Joshua (ספר יהושע)
The Book of Joshua (ספר יהושע, Sefer Yehoshua) is a book of the Hebrew Bible's Former Prophets in 24 chapters, narrating Israel's conquest of Canaan under Joshua after Moses' death.
Book of Jubilees
The Book of Jubilees, also called Little Genesis or Kufale, is a second-century BCE Jewish retelling of Genesis and part of Exodus, framed as an angel's revelation to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Book of Judges (ספר שופטים)
The Book of Judges, or Sefer Shoftim, is the second book of the Nevi'im in the Hebrew Bible, narrating Israel's premonarchic era through regional deliverers called judges.
Book of Judith (יהודית)
The Book of Judith (יהודית, Yehudhith) is a Jewish narrative in which Judith beheads Assyrian general Holofernes; the Council of Trent counted it among the Catholic deuterocanonical books in 1546.
Book of Kells
The Book of Kells, also known as the Book of Columba, is an illuminated manuscript of the four Gospels written around 800 and held at Trinity College Dublin.
Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Arabic: Kitāb fī maʿrifat al-ḥiyal al-handasiyya) is an illustrated treatise completed in 1206 by engineer al-Jazarī at the Artuqid court in Diyarbakır, describing fifty mechanical devices.
Book of Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations, Hebrew Eicha, traditionally attributed to Jeremiah, is a book of the Hebrew Bible with five poems mourning Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians in 587/586 BCE.
Book of Later Han
The Book of Later Han (后汉书, Hou Hanshu) is a Chinese history of the Eastern Han dynasty, compiled by Fan Ye in about 90 juan.
Book of Leviticus (ויקרא)
Leviticus, also known as Vayikra, is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, a collection of priestly ritual law, sacrifice rules, and purity laws in 27 chapters.
Book of Life (ספר החיים)
The Book of Life (Hebrew: ספר החיים, Sefer HaChaim) is the register in which Jewish tradition holds that God records the worthy for life, invoked on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Book of Lord Shang
The Book of Lord Shang (商君书) is a Warring States political text attributed to Shang Yang, advocating farming, war, and strong government for the state of Qin.
Book of Malachi
The Book of Malachi is the last book of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, six dispute prophecies composed in the Persian period after 515 BCE.
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon, subtitled Another Testament of Jesus Christ, is a Latter Day Saint scripture first published in Palmyra, New York, in 1830, with 200 million copies printed by 2023.
Book of Nehemiah
The Book of Nehemiah is a Hebrew Bible book telling how Nehemiah, cupbearer of Persian king Artaxerxes I, rebuilt Jerusalem's walls in 52 days around 445 BCE.
Book of Noah
The Book of Noah is a hypothetical ancient Jewish work attributed to the patriarch Noah, reconstructed from Qumran fragments and passages in 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Genesis Apocryphon.
Book of Northern Qi
The Book of Northern Qi (北齐书) is a fifty-juan dynastic history of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi states, compiled by the Tang historian Li Baiyao.
Book of Numbers
The Book of Numbers, Hebrew Bemidbar, is the fourth book of the Torah, combining census lists, laws, and wilderness narratives covering Israel's journey from Sinai to Moab.
Book of Nut
The Book of Nut, anciently the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars, is an Egyptian astronomical text first attested at Abydos in the 13th century BCE.
Book of Obadiah (עֹבַדְיָהוּ)
The Book of Obadiah, also called Book of Abdias, is the shortest book of the Hebrew Bible, a single-chapter prophecy against Edom most often dated to the 6th century BCE.
Book of Proverbs
The Book of Proverbs, Hebrew Mishle, is a Hebrew Bible wisdom book of short sayings, parental instructions, and poems assembled under the name of Solomon and other authorities.
Book of Revelation (Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου)
The Book of Revelation, or Apocalypse of John, is the final book of the New Testament, a visionary work attributed to a John on Patmos.
Book of Rites
The Book of Rites (礼记) is a Han-dynasty anthology of essays, dialogues, and regulations on ritual, one of the Confucian classics, traditionally compiled by Dai Sheng in the Western Han.
Book of Ruth (רות)
The Book of Ruth (מגילת רות, Megillat Rut) is a book of the Hebrew Bible telling how the Moabite Ruth married Boaz of Bethlehem and became great-grandmother of King David.
Book of Shadows
The Book of Shadows is the ritual book of Wicca, an anthology of rites, laws, and magical instructions compiled by Gerald Gardner in the 1940s.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is a 2000 American horror film directed by Joe Berlinger, the first sequel to The Blair Witch Project, released by Artisan Entertainment.
Book of Signs
The Book of Signs is the conventional label for John 1:19–12:50, the first major division of the Gospel of John, presenting Jesus's ministry through seven selected signs.