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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.
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 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.
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.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (مكتبة الإسكندرية)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (مكتبة الإسكندرية), the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt, inaugurated 16 October 2002; a $200 million UNESCO-backed library, museum, and conference complex holding about 2 million printed items near the ancient library's site.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the French national library, descended from the royal library and renamed BnF in 1994; run on five Paris-area sites including François-Mitterrand (1996), with legal deposit since 1537 and the Gallica digital library.
Bibyeonsa
Bibyeonsa (비변사, 備邊司), the Border Defense Council, was a Joseon government office that became the supreme organ of state affairs after 1592, until its 1865 merger into the Uijeongbu.
Bibyeonsa Deungnok
Bibyeonsa Deungnok (비변사등록, Records of the Border Defense Council) is a set of 273 manuscript volumes recording the deliberations of the Bibyeonsa, the council that governed late Joseon Korea, covering 1617 to 1892.
Bic Camera
Bic Camera is a Tokyo-based Japanese consumer electronics retailer founded by Ryuji Arai, incorporated in 1980 and traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as code 3048.
Bicai
Bicai (必才), courtesy name Dayong, was a Yuan-dynasty Tiantai Buddhist monk, abbot of Dezang, Xingfu, and Yanfu temples near Hangzhou, honored by Emperor Shundi with the title Fojian Yuanzhao.
Bicameralism
Bicameralism: a legislature divided into two chambers, both needed to pass laws; also called a two-chamber parliament. 82 of 189 national parliaments are bicameral; rooted in the 14th-century English parliament.
Bicara Therapeutics
Bicara Therapeutics Inc. is a clinical-stage Boston biopharmaceutical company developing dual-action antibodies for solid tumors, led by ficerafusp alfa and listed on Nasdaq since 2024.
Bicesse Accords
The Bicesse Accords, formally the Peace Accords for Angola, were a peace agreement signed in Portugal on 31 May 1991 between Angola's government and UNITA to end the first phase of the Angolan Civil War.
Bicheng Energy / Luoneng Capital new energy M&A fund (新能源并购基金)
The 新能源并购基金 is a RMB 1 billion fund formed in Chengdu in 2026 by Bicheng Energy, Luoneng Capital, and Chengdu state investors to buy solar and storage assets.
Bicorne
Bicorne (two-cornered hat, French bicorne, also called corsair): late-18th-century cocked hat replacing the tricorne, worn en bataille or en colonne; associated with Napoleon; later ceremonial and naval officer headwear into the 20th century.
Bicycle Therapeutics
Bicycle Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, founded in 2009 on research by Greg Winter and Christian Heinis to develop bicyclic peptide therapeutics for solid tumors.
Bicycling and feminism
Bicycling and feminism covers the bicycle's role in women's emancipation from the 1890s safety-bike craze, bloomers and Susan B. Anthony's famous claim, to today's cycling gender gap, safety research, and male-dominated bike industry.
Bid
Bid refers most prominently to Bid Corporation Limited, known as Bidcorp, a South African-listed broadline foodservice distributor supplying hotels, restaurants, and caterers in 31 countries.
Bida Emirate
Bida Emirate is a traditional Fulani-ruled emirate in Niger State, central Nigeria, with its capital at the walled town of Bida; it arose when the Nupe kingdom joined the Sokoto Caliphate.
Bidam
Bidam (비담; 毗曇) was a Silla aristocrat of jin-gol birth who led a failed rebellion against Queen Seondeok in 647 and was executed within ten days.
Bidar Kadın
Bidar Kadın (Bidâr Kadınefendi, 1858–1918), Circassian consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, mother of Naime Sultan and Şehzade Abdülkadir, second kadınefendi from 1895, died in Erenköy, Istanbul.