The proceedings are divided into four sections. The first and largest section comprises papers concerned with disease in the Bible. The topics covered are wide ranging and include military medicine, obstetrics, and the nose and its disorders, as witnessed in the Bible. The second section is devoted to biblical psychology and the soul, and so inevitably strikes a philosophical chord. Miracles an...

Obviously, removing the supernatural from the Bible touches the foundation facts of the Christian faith: the incarnation and. resurrection of Christ. And it is interesting to observe that even scholars who engage in the demythologizing ‘process take issue with one another over their treatment of these, crucial matters. Yet the dilemma seems to be that if one does not retain the incarnation and ...

The Internet is a rich storage house for studying the role of the Bible in contemporary American and Western culture. The examination of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19) on the Internet demonstrates that biblical studies gain from the critical interaction with the digital world. Many religiously oriented Web pages mention the biblical story when they discuss the issue of homosexuality. Others in...

Many people over the years have studied the Bible from a medical point of view offering diagnoses for the symptoms and signs that appear to have afflicted numerous individuals in the Bible. We review the biblical characters in the Old Testament and offer newer insights to their neurological diseases. We first look at the battle between Goliath and David. Interestingly, Goliath probably suffered...

This paper aims at studying at length the various reasons for miracles with incidents from the Holy Bible adopting the Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps , a generalization of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. The content gives preliminaries of FCM and NCM with a descriptive account of the problem and the various miracles witnessed in the Bible using NCM. The data acquired is collated to conclude on the most esse...

We describe the creation of a massively parallel corpus based on 100 translations of the Bible. We discuss some of the difficulties in acquiring and processing the raw material as well as the potential of the Bible as a corpus for natural language processing. Finally we present a statistical analysis of the corpora collected and a detailed comparison between the English translation and other En...

A sample of 122 female students attending a Pentecostal Bible College in England completed Form G (Anglicised) of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The data demonstrated preferences for extraversion over introversion, for sensing over intuition, for feeling over thinking, and for judging over perceiving. The predominant type was ISFJ (16%), followed by ESFJ (12%). Comparison with the popu...

We demonstrate an approach for inducing a tagger for historical languages based on existing resources for their modern varieties. Tags from a Present Day English Bible are projected to a Middle English Bible using multiple alignment approaches and are smoothed with a bigram tagger. Finally, we train a maximum entropy tagger on the output of the bigram tagger on the target text and test it on ta...