This is one of a series entitled " By-Paths of Bible Knowledge," and is not intended solely for medical men. If it is taken for granted that a "popular" book on the Diseases of the Bible is desirable, Sir Risdon Bennett's little work no doubt answers the purpose fairly well. We are, however, inclined to doubt the wisdom of any such book, and in justification of this feeling Sir Risdon's words i...

The English word ‘Bible’ comes from the Greek word biblion. This word meant “roll” or “book”. It was usually a roll of papyrus or reed-like plant that was dried and fashioned into a writing material. This word occurs in the LXX copy of Daniel 9:2, and in Revelation 10:2. But today the word “Bible” means much more than just a book. It carries a sense of majesty as being the ultimate book par exc...

ever since the rise of christianity, the bible has played a key role in the christian religiosity. it was a guide to faith, a supreme source of belief and morals, the standard of christian orthodoxy, and a means of combating heresies; for a great majority of christians, it continues to enjoy the same position. after the renaissance, the biblical studies, in terms of authorship, style of writing...

Violent people often claim that God sanctions their actions. In two studies, participants read a violent passage said to come from either the Bible or an ancient scroll. For half the participants, the passage said that God sanctioned the violence. Next, participants competed with an ostensible partner on a task in which the winner could blast the loser with loud noise through headphones (the ag...

Many evolutionists claim that science has disproved the Bible and they use this claim to discredit creationism. In this paper I view the Bible from an epidemiologic perspective and attempt to show that, contrary to being disproved by science, it can be considered a general guide to medical epidemiology. The concepts of health and disease, the Creation Health Model, and the critical dependence o...

for us, readers of chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in the canterbury tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. the pardoner of the tales is ...

OETRY is not only central in the title, but for the study of the Hebrew Bible. There is no intention here of disvaluing the prose of the Bible, which constitutes the first major literary composition in that medium ever produced, so far as I am aware, whether we speak of the so-called Court History and the J source of the Pentateuch of the 10th century B.C., or the composite whole which we may c...

Translating the Bible so that target audiences can easily understand the meaning of the text has dominated the theory and practice of Bible translation since the 1960s. Source oriented translations that are typically associated with word-for-word translations received little theoretical reflection. However, developments in Translation Studies have made it clear that the latter type of translati...

Prior to 1970, modern biblical scholars gave little attention to the role of the natural world in the literature of the Bible and in the religion culture of ancient Israel. Too often it was assumed that the religion of Israel was a religion of history, and that the Bible focused exclusively on the relationship between God and humans. The natural world was viewed merely as the stage on which the...

The Bible is an epic account of humanity with a profound cultural influence and significance. For thousands of years, reading and interpreting the Bible has been a topic of great interest in religious, academic, and general public circles alike. However, the Bible as a physical document is unwieldy: with 40 authors 66 chapters, and over 700,000 words, it is difficult — even for experts — to tra...