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    In Christianity, the term biblical authority refers to two complementary ideas: the extent to which one can regard the commandments and doctrines within...
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  • Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible "is without error or fault in all its teaching"; or, at least, that "Scripture in the original manuscripts...
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  • Biblical infallibility is the belief that what the Bible says regarding matters of faith and Christian practice is wholly useful and true. It is the "belief...
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    Biblical inspiration is the doctrine in Christian theology that the human writers and canonizers of the Bible were led by God with the result that their...
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    The biblical apocrypha (from Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apókruphos) 'hidden') denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written...
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  • Biblical languages are any of the languages employed in the original writings of the Bible. Partially owing to the significance of the Bible in society...
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  • the 18th century. Various biblical canons have developed through debate and agreement on the part of the religious authorities of their respective faiths...
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  • Biblical Aramaic is the form of Aramaic that is used in the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Hebrew Bible. It should not be confused with the Targums –...
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    The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions:...
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  • Biblical unitarianism (otherwise capitalized as biblical Unitarianism, sometimes abbreviated as BU) is a Unitarian Christian denomination whose adherents...
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  • Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Old Testament and New Testament). For its theory...
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  • and his male descendants and is known as the brit milah. Covenants in biblical times were often sealed by severing an animal, with the implication that...
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  • Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation. It can equate to the dictionary definition...
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    deism. Against the backdrop of Enlightenment-era skepticism of biblical and church authority, scholars began to study the life of Jesus through a historical...
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    Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites...
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  • A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual...
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  • Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics...
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    current edition of the Masoretic Text is mostly in Biblical Hebrew, with a few passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel and Ezra, and the verse...
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  • them an autograph, and multiple biblical canons, which do not completely agree on which books have sufficient authority to be included or their order....
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  • speaking in tongues and divine healing. Because of their commitment to biblical authority, spiritual gifts, and the miraculous, Pentecostals see their movement...
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    Andrew Sandlin criticizes biblical patriarchy for teaching the authority of fathers, whereas the Bible teaches the authority of both fathers and mothers...
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    Christian translations have 1 Chronicles 6:1–15. Early manuscripts of the biblical texts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in the numbered form...
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  • the original Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek. A mistranslation is not God's word, and no human authority can invest it with divine authority. Scripture...
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    see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית (Ivrit Miqra'it) or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא (Leshon...
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    traditions, and the third in Roman Catholic and Lutheran traditions. The Biblical Hebrew Shabbat is a verb meaning "to cease" or "to rest", its noun form...
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  • proscription against a relationship with a granddaughter, although some biblical scholars have instead proposed that it was originally in the list, but...
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  • nature of inspiration. The irony is clear. In their efforts to protect biblical authority, the framers define inspiration in a way that does not account well...
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  • These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus. Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts...
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    The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. As of September 2023[update] all of the Bible...
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  • first major division dealt with Scriptural authority, among other issues. "Orthodox Quakers" emphasized Biblical sources while "Hicksite" and his followers...
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