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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Bible story

Bible stories, Judeo-Christian parables retelling some portions of the Bible, have long had a place in family religious worship, spiritual instruction, literature, and the cultural underpinnings of many Christian and Jewish societies. In many Christian churches, they are regular ingredients of Sunday School curricula. The underlying spiritual principles in many of these stories are being used in preaching and teaching for Judeo-Christian adults as well. The Tanakh, also known as the Old Testament, contains among others, stories about ...

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Bible story - External link

Bible stories: Encyclopedia II - Joseph Hebrew Bible - The Genesis story of Joseph According to Genesis, Joseph was the elder of the two sons of Jacob by Rachel (Gen. 30:23, 24), who, on the occasion of his birth, said, "The Lord shall add [Heb. yoseph] to me another son" (Gen. 30:24). He was born in Padan-Aram when Jacob was about ninety years old. He was probably six years old when his father returned from Haran to Canaan and took up his residence in the town of Hebron. Joseph was a favorite son of his father's, who made him a multi-colored coat, and was envied by his half-brothers, who saw the speci ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Cain and Abel

The story of Cain and Abel, mentioned in the Torah and the Bible at Genesis 4, and Qu'ran at 5:27-32, tells of the somewhat unexplained murder of Abel by his brother, Cain. In the Torah, this even constitutes the first recorded murder, Cain and Abel being sons of Adam and Eve. Cain and Abel - Names. Cain and Abel are english renderings of the Hebrew names קַיִן / קָיִן and הֶבֶל / הָבֶל, respectively, from the bible. In the modern Standard Hebrew transliterati ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Book of Esther

The Book of Esther is a book of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and of the Old Testament. The Book of Esther or the Megillah is the basis for the Jewish celebration of Purim. Its full text is read aloud twice during the celebration. Book of Esther - Setting. The Biblical Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of Persia usually identified with Xerxes I, although other identifications have been suggested. It tells a tale of palace intrigue, attempted genocide and a ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Son of man

The phrase son of man is a primarily Semitic idiom that originated in Ancient Mesopotamia, used to denote humanity or self. Son of man - Ancient languages. In Akkadian, son of man is: ameluti In Sumerian, son of man is: DUMU.LU.ULU.LU (?) In Hebrew, son of man due to spelling and dialect differences is either: בן אדם [ben 'adam] בן אנש [ben 'enosh] < ...

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Son of man - Hebrew Bible

Son of man - New Testament

Son of man - Theological interpretation

Son of man - Bibliography

Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Yusuf sura

Sura Yusuf (Arabic: سورة يوسف ) (Joseph) is the 12th sura of the Qur'an. It has 111 ayat. It is a Makkan sura. This sura tells the story of the same Joseph known to Christians and Jews from the Bible or Torah and sticks to a similar version of the storyline. ...

Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Autobiography of a Yogi

Autobiography of a Yogi: In 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda published his life story, Autobiography of a Yogi, which was instrumental in introducing vedic philosophy to the West. It has since been translated into eighteen languages and remains a best seller. It includes Yogananda's and Sri Yukteswar's attempts to explain certain verses and events of the Bible such as the Garden of Eden story. Further, it provides descriptions of Yogananda's encounters with leading spiritual figures such as Therese Neumann, the ...

Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Biblical mythology

The phrase "Biblical mythology" refers to the body of myths presented in some parts of the Bible. According to sociologists of religion, many narratives in the Bible fulfill the criteria of being a myth: they are based on tradition and legend, designed to explain the universal and local beginnings ("creation myths" and "founding myths"), natural phenomena, inexplicable cultural conventions, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself. In order to compare these stories to myths in other traditions without prejudice or bias, the Biblical accounts are likewise treated under ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Wormwood

Wormwood may refer to: Various plants of the genus Artemisia. One of the plagues in the Book of Revelation Wormwood, a character in The Screwtape Letters, a novel by C. S. Lewis. Miss Wormwood, a character in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible is an album made by avant-garde musicians The Residents. Wormwood (album), an album by moe. Wormwood (song), a song by Tristania. Other

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - All You Zombies song

"All You Zombies" is a song by The Hooters on their second album Nervous Night released in 1985. The song stems from the stories of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and Noah's Ark in the Old Testament of the Bible, and the fact that in both stories the people had rejected higher guidance. Some suggest that the song is a religious allegory on the unenlightened, warning them of what is to come if they do not accept the word of God, while others believe that the tune was written first and the lyrics only added because they fit. The song was performed by the ba ...

Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Patience

Patience is the ability and willingness to endure a task that takes a long time, especially one that is boring. It also means not easily getting angry or not showing anger in situations of human communication where the other is unreasonable. Impatience is an opposite of patience. Patience is described as a virtue in religion or spiritual practices. It is highlighted in the Bible and Qur'an in the story of Job. However, it is not one of the traditional Biblical three theological virtues nor one of the four cardinal virtue ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Child

A child (plural: children) is a young human. Depending on context it may mean someone who is not yet an adult, or someone who has not yet reached puberty (someone who is prepubescent). Child is also a counterpart of parent: adults are the children of their parents despite their maturation beyond infancy; for example "Benjamin, aged 46, is the child of Tobias, aged 73". Similarly in a generalized sense, see child node. Child - Gender. A female child is called a girl ...

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Child - Cognitive development

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Book of Judges

Book of Judges (Hebrew: ספר שופטים) is a book of the Bible originally written in Hebrew. It appears in the Hebrew Bible (Judaism's Tanakh) and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges (not to be confused with modern judges), and of their times. who helped rule and guide the ancient Israelites. As it stands today, the last judge mentioned in Judges is Samson, and although there are two further stories, the traditional view is that Samson's exploits prob ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Noah

Noah or Nóach ("Rest," Standard Hebrew נוֹחַ (Nóaḥ), Tiberian Hebrew נֹחַ (Nōªḥ); Arabic نوح (Nūḥ)), is a Biblical figure who, according to Genesis, built an ark to save his family and each species of the world's animals from the Deluge (an example of Divine retribution). The story of his life is told in ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Scribe

This is about scribe, the profession. For the New Zealand rapper, please see Scribe (rapper). For scribing in graffiti, see scribing (graffiti). Scribe (or Scrivener) is an ancient profession, a person who could read and write. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and history records for rulers such as kings, nobility, temples, and cities. Later the profession developed for example in ...

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Scribe - Scribes in the Bible

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Binding of Isaac

The Binding of Isaac, in Genesis 22, is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. To many readers the tale is one of the most challenging, complex, mystifying, and perhaps ethically troublesome episodes in the entire Bible. The story is referred to as the Akedah or Akedat Yitschak (עקידת יצחק) in Hebrew (the binding of Isaac) and as the Dhabih in Arabic. Abraham agrees to God's command without argument, even though God gives him no reason fo ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth is a book in the Hebrew Bible known to Jews as the Tanakh and to Christians as the Old Testament. Book of Ruth - The story. Ruth (רוּת "Compassion", Standard Hebrew Rut, Tiberian Hebrew Rûṯ) is a Moabite woman whose father-in-law and mother-in-law, Elimelech and Naomi had settled in the land of Moab. Elimelech died there, and his two sons married, Mahlon taking Ruth as his wife, and Chilion taking Orpah, both women of Moab; both sons likewise died. ...

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Bible stories: Encyclopedia - 3 Maccabees

The Biblical book 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part of the deuterocanonical books. Protestants and Catholics regard it as apocryphal. The book actually has nothing to do with the Maccabees or their revolt against the Greek empire, as described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees. Instead it tells the story of persecution of the Jews under Ptolemy IV Philopator (222-205 BC). The name of the book apparently comes from the similarities between this book and the stories of the martyrdom of ...