The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions.The Bible is an anthology—a compilation of texts of a variety of forms—originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek.These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies ...

Although we now think of the Bible as something fixed and unchanging, before the second century C.E. different Jewish groups had different sets of books in their “Bibles.” Three Biblical Canons. Three Biblical Canons representing the Jewish Tanakh, Catholic Old Testament, and the Protestant Old Testament.

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions.The Bible is an anthology—a compilation of texts of a variety of forms—originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek.These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies ...

...the Concordance of Discordant Canons or Decretum served the function of giving the canonists a text like that of the Corpus Iuris Civilis for the civilians or the bible for the theologians. These commentaries were called glosses. Editions printed in the 15th, 16th or 17th centuries frequently included the glosses along with the text.

Jewish. The Torah is viewed by some as the literal word of God, dictated to Moses.According to the 12th-century Jewish scholar Maimonides, "The Torah that we have today is the one dictated to Moses by God". The Prophets, such as Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Jonah, are said to have heard and reported the word of God, while the Writings (the category that includes books such as Psalms, …

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The genealogies of Genesis provide the framework around which the Book of Genesis is structured. Beginning with Adam, genealogical material in Genesis 4, 5, 10, 11, 22, 25, 29–30, 35–36, and 46 moves the narrative forward from the creation to the beginnings of the Israelites' existence as a people.. Adam's lineage in Genesis contains two branches: Chapter 4 giving the …

The Letter to the Gentile Believers … 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements: 29 You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. 30 So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, …

The Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 103 ("MK" - Maschinenkanone) was a German 30 mm caliber autocannon that was mounted in German combat aircraft during World War II.Intended to be a dual purpose weapon for anti-tank and air-to-air fighting, it was developed from the MK 101.Compared to the MK 101 it was faster firing, and was originally intended to develop a …

Koine Greek (UK: / ˈ k ɔɪ n iː /; Modern Greek: Ελληνιστική Κοινή, romanized: Ellinistikí Kiní, lit. 'Common Greek'; Greek: [elinistiˈci ciˈni]), also known as Alexandrian dialect, common Attic, Hellenistic, or Biblical Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.