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Bible code

The Bible code, also called the Torah code, is a claimed pattern of hidden messages in the Hebrew Torah, found by taking every nth letter.

Bible errata

Bible errata, also called Biblical errata or Bible misprints, are typographical and translation errors in printed Bible editions, most notoriously the 1631 Wicked Bible, which omitted "not" from the seventh commandment.

Bible John

Bible John is the unidentified serial killer believed responsible for the murders of Patricia Docker, Jemima McDonald, and Helen Puttock in Glasgow 1968-1969, all strangled after nights out at the Barrowland Ballroom; nicknamed for quoting scripture in a taxi.

Bible Land Wildlife Preserve

Bible Land Wildlife Preserve (ארץ חיות התנ'ך), a 40-dunam exhibit at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo holding biblical-era animals: Nubian ibex, mountain gazelle, Persian fallow deer, and Arabian oryx, with breeding and reintroduction programs.

Bible of Kralice

The Bible of Kralice (Bible kralická) is the first complete Czech Bible translated from the original Hebrew and Greek, printed at Kralice between 1579 and 1594.

Bible prophecy

Bible prophecy, also called Hebrew prophecy, is the belief and practice in which prophets receive and deliver messages from God, recorded in the Hebrew Bible.

Bible society

A Bible society is a non-denominational association that translates, publishes, and distributes the Bible at low cost, beginning with the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804.

Bible translation process

Bible translation process is the organized pipeline by which a Bible translation is planned, drafted, reviewed, and approved for publication, involving mother-tongue translators, community testing, and a certified consultant check.

Bible translations

Bible translations render the Bible, or parts of it, from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek into other languages; roughly 4,100 languages have some Scripture, but only about 800 have a complete Bible.

Bible translations into African languages

Bible translations into African languages span from the 2nd-century Coptic version to modern projects in Swahili, Amharic, Yoruba, Hausa, and Zulu, led today by native-speaker translators.

Bible translations into Chinese

Bible translations into Chinese began with Nestorian missionaries in the Tang dynasty and culminated in the Chinese Union Version of 1919, still the dominant Protestant Chinese Bible.

Bible translations into creole and pidgin languages

Bible translations into creole and pidgin languages render the Christian scriptures into Haitian Creole, Gullah, Jamaican Patois, and St. Lucian Creole rather than European languages.

Bible translations into English

Bible translations into English, also called the English Bible, are renderings of the Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament into English, dating from about 700 CE.

Bible translations into Esperanto

Bible translations into Esperanto, also called the Esperanto Bible, are renderings of the scriptures into Esperanto, beginning in 1887 and culminating in the 1926 Londona Biblio.

Bible translations into fictional languages

Bible translations into fictional languages are renderings of scripture into invented languages such as Klingon, Na'vi, Quenya, and toki pona, usually by fans, linguists, and hobbyists.

Bible translations into Japanese

Bible translations into Japanese are Japanese-language versions of the Christian Bible, beginning with a Jesuit New Testament printed in Kyoto in 1612, lost under Japan's prohibition on Christianity.

Bible translations into Korean

Bible translations into Korean began with Protestant missionary work in the 1880s; the first complete Bible appeared in 1911, and the 개역한글 dominated Protestant use.

Bible translations into Malay

Bible translations into Malay began with Ruyl's Gospel of Matthew, printed in 1629 as the first printed Bible portion in any non-European Asian language, followed by the complete Leydecker Bible of 1733.

Bible translations into Malayalam

Bible translations into Malayalam, also known as the Malayalam Bible, began with the four Gospels printed in 1811 and include the 1910 Sathyavedapusthakam and the 1981 Catholic POC Bible.

Bible translations into Native South American languages

Bible translations into Native South American languages render Christian scripture into Indigenous languages like Quechua, Aymara, and Guaraní, beginning with Jesuit and other Catholic missionaries in the colonial period.

Bible translations into Oceanic languages

Bible translations into Oceanic languages are renderings of the Christian Scriptures into roughly 500 Oceanic languages, beginning with the Tahitian Bible of 1838 and continuing today.

Bible translations into Romance languages

Bible translations into Romance languages are vernacular Bibles in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Catalan, from medieval Latin-based paraphrases to full translations from Hebrew and Greek after the 16th century.

Bible translations into Tamil

Bible translations into Tamil, also called the Tamil Bible, began with Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg's New Testament, printed at Tranquebar in 1714–1715 as the first Scripture printed in any Indian language.

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 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 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.