query: who wrote first and second john in the bible

pos: First Epistle of John First Epistle of John The First Epistle of John, often referred to as First John and written 1 John or I John, is the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles. It is attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the Gospel of John and the other two Johannine epistles. This epistle was probably written in Ephesus in AD 95–110. The work was written to counter docetism, which is the belief that Jesus did not come "in the flesh", but only as a spirit. It also

neg: The Neon Bible The Neon Bible The Neon Bible is John Kennedy Toole's first novel, written at the age of 16. Its main appeal is as an early look at the writer who would later write "A Confederacy of Dunces". Toole, describing the novel during correspondence with an editor, wrote "In 1954, when I was 16, I wrote a book called "The Neon Bible", a grim, adolescent, sociological attack upon the hatreds caused by the various Calvinist religions in the South—and the fundamentalist mentality is one of the roots of what was happening in Alabama, etc. The book, of course, was bad, but

neg: Antichrist bottomless pit." The identification of the Pope with the Antichrist was so ingrained in the Reformation Era, that Luther himself stated it repeatedly: John Calvin similarly wrote: John Knox wrote on the Pope: Thomas Cranmer on the Antichrist wrote: John Wesley, speaking of the identity given in the Bible of the Antichrist, wrote: Roger Williams wrote about the Pope: The identification of the Roman Catholic Church as the apostate power written of in the Bible as the Antichrist became evident to many as the Reformation began, including John Wycliffe, who was well-known throughout Europe for his opposition to the doctrine

neg: Historicist interpretations of the Book of Revelation so ingrained in the Reformation Era, that Luther himself stated it repeatedly: John Calvin similarly wrote: John Knox wrote on the Pope: Thomas Cranmer on the Antichrist wrote: John Wesley, speaking of the identity given in the Bible of the Antichrist, wrote: Roger Williams wrote about the Pope: The identification of the Roman Catholic Church as the apostate power written of in the Bible as the Antichrist became evident to many as the Reformation began, including John Wycliffe, who was well-known throughout Europe for his opposition to the doctrine and practices of the Catholic Church, which he believed had clearly

neg: John Goldie (philosopher) was greatly enhanced whilst the son was mortified and humiliated to the extent that he left Ayrshire and was never seen in these parts again. John Goldie was forty years older than Robert Burns however he became friendly with Robert Burns who wrote the 'Epistle to John Goldie' in 1785 following the publication of a new edition of 'Goudie's Bible'. John wrote against the 'lying vanities' of those people who interpreted the Bible literally and this created a strong bond between the "O Gowdie Terror o'the Whigs" and the 'New Licht' poet. In those times a 'Whig' was a fundamentalist

neg: Almanac the first English printed almanac. By the second half of the 16th century, yearly almanacs were being produced in England by men such as Anthony Askham, Thomas Buckminster, John Dade and Gabriel Frende. In the 17th century, English almanacs were bestsellers, second only to the Bible; by the middle of the century, 400,000 almanacs were being produced annually (a complete listing can be found in the English Short Title Catalogue). Until its deregulation in 1775, the Stationers' Company maintained a lucrative monopoly over almanac publication in England. Richard Allestree (who is not the same as this Richard Allestree) wrote one

neg: Matthew Bible influenced English Bible versions in the centuries that followed its first appearance. John Strype wrote in 1694 that the 1537 Matthew Bible was printed by Richard Grafton, in Hamburg. Later editions were printed in London; the last of four appeared in 1551. Two editions of the Matthew Bible were published in 1549. One was a reprint of the 1537 first edition, and was printed by Thomas Raynalde and William Hyll (Herbert #75). The other was printed by John Daye and William Seres, and made extensive changes to the notes of the original Matthew Bible, included copious commentaries on the book

neg: Quran oath controversy of the 110th United States Congress Pierce affirmed the oath rather than swearing it. Theodore Roosevelt used no Bible in taking his first oath of office in 1901, but did in 1905. Other sources have noted that after John F. Kennedy was assassinated a Catholic missal was used as no Bible could be found when Lyndon B. Johnson (who was not Catholic, but a Disciple of Christ) had to assume the Presidency. The Library of Congress notes that "As the first Catholic elected president, Kennedy was the first to use a Catholic (Douay-Rheims) version of the Bible for his oath." Although Prager previously wrote that Ellison

neg: John H. Sammis John H. Sammis John H. Sammis was the writer of the Christian hymn "Trust and Obey" with Towner in 1887. Sammis was born in 1846, in Brooklyn, New York and died in 1919 in Los Angeles, California. A businessman who became a Presbyterian minister, John Sammis also wrote the hymn "He's a Friend of Mine". He taught at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Sammis wrote over 100 hymns. Most of them can be categorized in "Songs of TRUST" and "Songs of OBEDIENCE". They were compiled by T. C. Horton (a founder of Bible Institute of Los Angeles) and R.

neg: John H. Sammis A. Torrey in 1918. John H. Sammis John H. Sammis was the writer of the Christian hymn "Trust and Obey" with Towner in 1887. Sammis was born in 1846, in Brooklyn, New York and died in 1919 in Los Angeles, California. A businessman who became a Presbyterian minister, John Sammis also wrote the hymn "He's a Friend of Mine". He taught at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Sammis wrote over 100 hymns. Most of them can be categorized in "Songs of TRUST" and "Songs of OBEDIENCE". They were compiled by T. C. Horton (a founder of Bible Institute of

neg: 36-line Bible first. The date "1461" was marked by a rubricator (a scribe who hand-wrote initials and other items in red text, for decoration or emphasis) written in one copy of the 36-line Bible, indicating that it would not have been printed any later than this. Most scholars now agree that the 36-line Bible can be dated to c. 1458–60, making it the second printed edition of the Bible. An existing fragment of a 40-line Bible was probably printed around 1458 or earlier, and printed with the same type. However it is believed that the fragment is only a trial piece, and

neg: John Bendor-Samuel aspect of our work". In total, Bendor-Samuel wrote one book, co-authored another, contributed several articles to academic journals and wrote 14 articles on Niger–Congo language groups for the "Encyclopædia Britannica". John Bendor-Samuel John Theodore Bendor-Samuel (9 June 1929 – 6 January 2011) was an evangelical Christian missionary and linguist who furthered Bible translation work into African languages, as well as making significant contributions to the study of African linguistics. Amongst his friends and colleagues he was widely known by his initials, JBS. He had an instrumental role in the founding of Wycliffe Bible Translators UK; the West Africa Linguistics Society

neg: John Calvin "Psychopannychia", attempted to refute the doctrine of soul sleep as promulgated by the Anabaptists. Calvin probably wrote it during the period following Cop's speech, but it was not published until 1542 in Strasbourg. Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His first commentary on Romans was published in 1540, and he planned to write commentaries on the entire New Testament. Six years passed before he wrote his second, a commentary on First Epistle to the Corinthians, but after that he devoted more attention to reaching his goal. Within four years he had published commentaries on all

neg: Whore of Babylon phrase "Whore of Babylon" to refer to the Roman Catholic Church. Reformation writers from Martin Luther (1483–1546) (who wrote "On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), John Calvin (1509–1564), and John Knox (1510–1572) (who wrote "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women") taught this association. Most early Protestant Reformers believed, and the modern Seventh-day Adventist Church teaches, that in Bible prophecy a woman represents a church. "I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman." (Jeremiah 6:2 ) A harlot, it is argued, is representative of a church that has been

neg: Adams National Historical Park as well as the Mendi Bible, a bible presented to John Quincy Adams in 1841 by the freed Mendi captives who had mutinied on the schooner "La Amistad" and who Adams had successfully defended before the United States Supreme Court. Henry Adams wrote his nine volume "The History of the United States of America 1801–1817" in the library. The church where both Presidents and their First Ladies are entombed in the Adams Crypt has never been administered by the National Park service. It is owned by the active congregation of Unitarian Universalists. In the past ten years, the congregation has

neg: John 20:6 John 20:6 John 20:6 is the sixth verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the Bible. Peter and the Beloved Disciple have just arrived at the empty tomb of Jesus. The Beloved Disciple, who arrived slightly ahead of Peter, paused outside the empty tomb. In the verse, Peter enters the tomb upon his arrival. In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: The English Standard Version translates the passage as: Though Peter arrived second, he enters the tomb first. To F.F. Bruce, Peter entering the tomb as soon as he arrives shows his

neg: References to the Antichrist in ecclesiastical writings References to the Antichrist in ecclesiastical writings The concept of the Antichrist has been a vigorous one throughout Christian history, and there are many references to it and to associated concepts both in the Bible and in subsequent ecclesiastical writings. The words "antichrist" and "antichrists" appear four times in the First and Second Epistle of John. 1 John chapter 2 refers to many antichrists present at the time while warning of one Antichrist that is coming. The "many antichrists" belong to the same spirit as that of the one Antichrist. John wrote that such antichrists deny "that Jesus is the

neg: American literature years later with "God's Controversy With New England". Nicholas Noyes was also known for his doggerel verse. Other late writings described conflicts and interaction with the Indians, as seen in writings by Daniel Gookin, Alexander Whitaker, John Mason, Benjamin Church, and Mary Rowlandson. John Eliot translated the Bible into the Algonquin language. Of the second generation of New England settlers, Cotton Mather stands out as a theologian and historian, who wrote the history of the colonies with a view to God's activity in their midst and to connecting the Puritan leaders with the great heroes of the Christian faith. His

neg: John Lewis (antiquarian) of Wiclif he published in 1731 "The New Testament, translated out of the Latin Vulgat by John Wiclif, S.T.P., about 1378: to which is præfixt a History of the Translations of the Bible and New Testament, &c. into English", London. The "History of Translations" was the first history of the English Bible since Miles Smith wrote in 1611; it was issued separately with additions as "A Complete History of the several Translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament into English, both in MS. and in print", 2nd edit., with additions, Lond. 1739; 3rd edit., with an appendix drawn from

neg: MacArthur Study Bible MacArthur Study Bible The MacArthur Study Bible, first issued in 1997 by current HarperCollins brand W Publishing, is a study Bible edited by evangelical Calvinist preacher John F. MacArthur with introductions and annotations to the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. It also has charts, maps, personal notes, Biblical harmonies, chronologies of Old Testament kings and prophets, and appendices. MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church and president of The Master's Seminary, wrote more than half of the 20,000 entries himself in longhand, and reworked many of the others written by seminary faculty. Initially only available in the New King James

neg: John Calvin bibliography First Samuel) and the Wisdom literature other than the Book of Psalms. For the New Testament, he omitted only the brief second and third Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation. These commentaries, too, have proved to be of lasting value to students of the Bible, and they are still in print after over 400 years. Calvin also wrote more than 1,300 letters on a wide range of topics. Calvin developed his theology, the most enduring component of his thought, in his biblical commentaries as well as his sermons and treatises, and he gave the most concise expression of

neg: Bible John Bible John Bible John is an unidentified serial killer who is believed to have murdered three young women between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland. Each of the victims of Bible John were young brunette women between the ages of 25 and 32, and all had met their murderer at the Barrowland Ballroom: a dance hall and music venue in the city. The perpetrator has never been identified and the case remains both unsolved, and one of the most extensive manhunts in Scottish criminal history. The murders committed by Bible John would prove to be the first time in Scotland

neg: Bible John Bible John Bible John is an unidentified serial killer who is believed to have murdered three young women between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland. Each of the victims of Bible John were young brunette women between the ages of 25 and 32, and all had met their murderer at the Barrowland Ballroom: a dance hall and music venue in the city. The perpetrator has never been identified and the case remains both unsolved, and one of the most extensive manhunts in Scottish criminal history. The murders committed by Bible John would prove to be the first time in Scotland

neg: Bible translations into Scots Bible translations into Scots To date, the Bible has not been completely translated into Lowland Scots. In 1513-39 Murdoch Nisbet, associated with a group of Lollards, wrote a Scots translation of the New Testament, working from John Purvey's Wycliffite Bible. However, this work remained unpublished, in manuscript form, and was known only to his family and Bible scholars. It was published by the Scottish Text Society in 1901-5. William Lorimer, a noted classical scholar, produced the first New Testament translation into modern Scots from the original koine Greek (though, in an appendix, when Satan speaks to Christ, he is quoted

neg: Franz Eugen Schlachter des Herrn Tisch". In the first part he wrote about the Bible and belief in Jesus Christ. In the second part he wrote about animals and nature. In the third part he described men of God such as Moody and the history of the church. The last part is a report on the political scene in Europe. The pamphlet was distributed to farms in the Emmental. In 1890 he founded a new assembly in Biel. Subsequently he began his translation of the Bible, beginning with the book of Job in 1893. In 1905 the "Miniaturbibel" (Miniature Bible) was completed, named

neg: John Henry Jowett the Bible. Devotional Books Works on the Bible Books of Sermons and Books on Preaching and on the Church Jowett was a companion of honor: 1922 Dissolution Honours John Henry Jowett John Henry Jowett (25 August 1864 – 19 December 1923) was an influential British Protestant preacher at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century and wrote many books on topics related to Christian living. He has been called "The greatest preacher in the English speaking world." Jowett was born August 25, 1864 at Beaumont Town, Northowram in Halifax, West Yorkshire to working-class parents who attended the Congregational

neg: John Calvin John Calvin John Calvin (; Calvin was a tireless polemic and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. In addition to his seminal "Institutes of the Christian Religion", Calvin wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, confessional documents, and various other theological treatises. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions erupted in widespread deadly violence against Protestant Christians in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where in 1536 he published the first edition

neg: Eliot Indian Bible Eliot Indian Bible The Eliot Indian Bible (officially: "Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God", a.k.a.: "Algonquian Bible") was the first Bible published in British North America. English Puritan missionary John Eliot produced a translation of the Geneva Bible into the indigenous Massachusett language. This is the reason that it is also known as " Eliot's Indian Bible." "Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up Biblum God " and the cover page of the translated Bible means "The Whole Holy His-Bible God, both Old Testament and also New Testament. This turned by the-servant-of-Christ, who is called John Eliot." The history of " Eliot's Indian Bible " involves

neg: Yesterday's Wine “love poems. In the first song, love was fleeting, tragically brief; in the second, love was remembered...” “December Day” had been recorded previously for Nelson’s 1969 LP "Good Times". “Family Bible” was another old tune that Nelson, a struggling songwriter at the time, sold to Paul Buskirk for fifty dollars; Buskirk took it to Claude Gray, who scored a number 7 hit with it in 1960. A song about his own youth, Nelson later insisted, “There could be no "Yesterday’s Wine" without ‘Family Bible.’” In his memoir Nelson wrote that "Me and Paul" was a song "that described the road

neg: Bible translations into Native American languages 1886 (translated C. Byington and J. Edwards.) and the Pentateuch in 1867. The first and second book of Samuel and the first book of Kings followed in 1913, as did John Edwards translation of 2 Kings. First and Second Samuel and the first book of Kings was drafted by Joseph Dukes and then finalized by Alfred Wright. Wycliffe Bible Translators working on a translation into modern Choctaw. Jonah and Amos were published separately 1996. Luke 2:1-20 was published by SIL in 1981. Gene Burnham and David Rising of Wycliffe Bible Translators were working on translation. Bel Abbey was also involved

neg: Slovene language in the region. The first printed Slovene words, "stara pravda" (meaning 'old justice'), appeared in 1515 in Vienna in a poem of the German mercenaries who suppressed the Slovene peasant revolt. Standard Slovene emerged in the second half of the 16th century, thanks to the works of Slovene Lutheran authors, who were active during the Protestant Reformation. The most prominent authors from this period are Primož Trubar, who wrote the first books in Slovene; Adam Bohorič, the author of the first Slovene grammar; and Jurij Dalmatin, who translated the entire Bible into Slovene. From the high Middle Ages up to

neg: Arthur Peake Dr. Peake also wrote separate commentaries on Hebrews (1902; Century Bible), Colossians (1903; Expositor's Greek Testament), Job (1905; Century Bible), Jeremiah (1910–12; Century Bible), and Isaiah xl-lxvi (1912). A portrait of him is at the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester. Arthur Peake Arthur Samuel Peake (1865–1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become

neg: Christian meditation its distinctiveness, but for guiding its practice. The first is that Christian meditation is grounded in the Bible. Because the God of the Bible is a personal God who speaks in words of revelation, Christian meditation responds to this revelation and focuses on that aspect, in contrast to mystic meditations which use mantras. The second distinctive mark of Christian meditation is that it responds to the "love of" God, as in I John : "We love, for he first loved us". The personal relationship based on the love of God that marks Christian communion is thus heightened in Christian meditation.

neg: David Griffiths (missionary) border, at Kington, Herefordshire. About 1850, some hopes being raised of renewing the mission in Madagascar, the London Missionary Society asked Griffiths and Joseph John Freeman, the only missionaries then surviving, to revise the Malagasy translation of the Bible. J. J. Freeman soon died (1851), and the whole work devolved upon Griffiths, who spent some five years on it. In 1854, he wrote a Malagasy grammar (Woodbridge). Griffiths also wrote some catechisms, a hymn-book, and nine or ten original treatises. He also revised many works already translated, e.g. the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' the 'Whole Bible,' and dictionaries. In 1858 he moved

neg: William John Hocking Hocking, who died 1940. His youngest son Leslie (was in the R.A.M.C.) died on the Somme 1914–1918. He joined the Plymouth Brethren in the 1880s, soon came to the attention of William Kelly and began contribution to the oral and written ministry of the Brethren. In 1920 he commenced editing "The Bible Monthly" magazine. Under the pseudonym of "Yod", he wrote a number of pamphlets for young Christians. He also wrote some expository books on the Bible. His book "The Son of His Love" was a defence of Christ's Eternal Sonship. He also worked on the revision of the Little

neg: Margaret Lea Houston I first heard the news, I thought I would lie down and die," she wrote to her mother. Houston tried to help out by assuming care of their other children in between his extended visits to Galveston. Her fears seemed well-founded when her son was critically wounded and left for dead at the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh. A second bullet was stopped by his Bible, bearing an inside inscription from Margaret. He was found languishing in a field by a Union Army clergyman who picked up the Bible and also found a letter from Margaret in his pocket. Taken

neg: John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr) John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr) John Rogers (c. 1505 – 4 February 1555) was an English clergyman, Bible translator and commentator. He guided the development of the Matthew Bible in vernacular English during the reign of Henry VIII and was the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England who was determined to restore Roman Catholicism. Rogers was born in Deritend, an area of Birmingham then within the parish of Aston. His father was also called John Rogers and was a lorimer – a maker of bits and spurs – whose family came from Aston; his mother was

neg: Isaiah 41 The Amplified Bible and the Jerusalem Bible both specify Cyrus here. However, some Jewish exegetes have applied the verse to Abraham; Reformation theologian John Calvin makes the same connection: This verse has inspired many well-known hymns, among them: This verse has inspired many well-known hymns, among them: John Wycliffe's translation, "worm of Jacob", uses the appositive genitive syntax. There is no reference to the worm in the Septuagint version: Isaiah 41 Isaiah 41 is the forty-first chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible and the second chapter of the

neg: Visual Bible Bible. Visual Bible The Visual Bible, also Visual Bible Project is the name used by two distinct projects to film, verbatim, books of the New Testament. The first Visual Bible project produced "" (1993) and "" (1994) starring Italian-American actor Bruce Marchiano as Jesus. Both films followed the New International Version word for word in the English version, and vernacular Bibles in versions dubbed into Spanish, Cantonese and Mandarin. The second Visual Bible project produced "The Gospel of John" narrated by Christopher Plummer and starring Scottish-Peruvian actor Henry Ian Cusick as Jesus. The film followed the text of the Good

neg: John Boson (writer) John Boson (writer) John Boson (1655–1730) was a writer in the Cornish language. The son of Nicholas Boson, he was born in Paul, Cornwall. He taught Cornish to William Gwavas. His works in Cornish include an epitaph for the language scholar John Keigwin, and the "Pilchard Curing Rhyme". He also wrote an epitaph for James Jenkins who died in 1710 and also wrote Cornish verse; and translated parts of the Bible, the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed. The only known surviving lapidary inscription in the Cornish language (to Arthur Hutchens, died 1709), is also his work, and can be

neg: Trinity key of his exegesis is an interpersonal analogy of mutual love. In "De trinitate" (399 — 419) he wrote, The Bible reveals it although only in the two neighboring verses 1 John , therefore one must ask if love itself is triune. Augustine found that it is, and consists of "three: the lover, the beloved, and the love." In the "Preface to the Second Edition" of his 1970 German book "Theologie der Drei Tage" (English translation: "Mysterium Paschale"), Hans Urs von Balthasar takes a cue from Revelation (Vulgate: "agni qui occisus est ab origine mundi", NIV: "the Lamb who was

neg: Christian universalism was helping to produce the Sauer Bible, the first German language Bible printed in America. In this Bible version, passages teaching universal reconciliation were marked in boldface. Other significant early modern Christian Universalist leaders include Elhanan Winchester, a Baptist preacher who wrote several books promoting the universal salvation of all souls after a period in purgatory, who founded the first Universalist church in Philadelphia, and founded a church that ministered to African American slaves in South Carolina; Hosea Ballou, a Universalist preacher and writer in New England; and Hannah Whitall Smith, a writer and evangelist from a Quaker background who

neg: Literature of Birmingham a substantial community of learned religious men from the 13th century onwards. The first Birmingham literary figure of lasting significance was John Rogers, who was born in Deritend in 1500 and educated at the Grammar School of the Guild of St. John, and who compiled, edited and partially translated the 1537 "Matthew Bible", the first complete authorised version of the Bible to be printed in the English language. This was the most influential of the early English printed Bibles, providing the basis for the later "Great Bible" and "Authorized King James Version". Rogers' translation of Philipp Melanchthon's "Weighing of the

neg: 36-line Bible John Ritblat Gallery in the British Library, and another is contained in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. 36-line Bible The 36-line Bible, also known as the "Bamberg Bible", (and sometimes called a "Gutenberg Bible") was the second moveable-type-printed edition of the Bible. It is believed to have been printed in Bamberg, Germany, circa 1458–1460. No printer's name appears in the book, but it is possible that Johannes Gutenberg was the printer. The primary, or particular meaning of the term Gutenberg Bible, is the first moveable-type-printed edition of the Bible, circa 1450–1455. The Gutenberg has 42 lines of text on each

neg: Johann Leusden book printer Joseph Athias, he published his "Biblia Hebraica", the first edition of the Hebrew Bible with numbered verses. Johann Leusden Johannes Leusden (also called Jan (informal), John (English), or Johann (German)) (26 April 1624 – 30 September 1699) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and orientalist. Leusden was born in Utrecht. He studied in Utrecht and Amsterdam and became a Professor of Hebrew in Utrecht, where he died, aged 75. Leusden was one of the most prominent Bible experts of his time, and wrote several works about the Bible and about Hebrew philology ("Philologus Hebraeus", 1656; "Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus", 1663; "Philologus

neg: Arthur Tappan Pierson it. On Pierson's gravestone was a picture on an open Bible. On the Bible were engraved two verses. I John 5:11 "God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son." Matthew 28:19 "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Arthur Tappan Pierson Arthur Tappan Pierson (March 6, 1837 – June 3, 1911) was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of

neg: Visual Bible Visual Bible The Visual Bible, also Visual Bible Project is the name used by two distinct projects to film, verbatim, books of the New Testament. The first Visual Bible project produced "" (1993) and "" (1994) starring Italian-American actor Bruce Marchiano as Jesus. Both films followed the New International Version word for word in the English version, and vernacular Bibles in versions dubbed into Spanish, Cantonese and Mandarin. The second Visual Bible project produced "The Gospel of John" narrated by Christopher Plummer and starring Scottish-Peruvian actor Henry Ian Cusick as Jesus. The film followed the text of the Good News

neg: Bible translations into Dutch Bible translations into Dutch Philips of Marnix, lord of Saint-Aldegonde (1538–1598), who was among the leaders of the Dutch War of Independence wrote one of the earliest Bible translations into Dutch. His translation influenced the later Statenvertaling or "States' Bible." The first official Bible translation into Dutch directly from Greek and Hebrew sources was the "Statenvertaling". It was ordered by the States-General at the Synod of Dort in 1618/19, and first published in 1637. It soon became the generally accepted translation for Reformed churches in the Netherlands and remained so well into the 20th century. It was supplanted to a

neg: John 1:1 God, and the Word "was" God. John 1:1 opens the larger section sometimes described as the "Prologue to John" (). The Prologue deals with Jesus, the "Word made flesh" who "dwelt among us" (). The Greek verse has been a source of much debate among Bible scholars and translators. Tertullian in the early third century wrote: Now if this one [the Word] is God according to John ("the Word was God"), then you have two: one who speaks that it may be, and another who carries it out. However, how you should accept this as "another" I have explained: as

neg: Tyndale Bible Judges, first and second Samuel, first and second Kings and first and second Chronicles, but they were not published and have not survived in their original forms. When Tyndale was martyred these works came to be in the possession of one of his associates John Rogers. These translations would be influential in the creation of the Matthew Bible which was published in 1537. Tyndale used a number of sources when carrying out his translations of both the New and Old Testaments. When translating the New Testament, he referred to the third edition (1522) of Erasmus's Greek New Testament, often referred

neg: Bible translations into Native American languages in 1888. The first book was done by John Roberts, an Episcopal missionary, and Michael White Hawk who translated the Gospel of Luke into Arapaho language for the American Bible Society in 1903. Blackfoot language is part of the Algonquian family. Matthew's gospel was translated by John William Tims and published in 1890 by the British and Foreign Bible Society. He also published "Readings From the Holy Scriptures" containing the first three chapters of Genesis and selections from the gospels. Donald and Patricia Frantz of Wycliffe Bible Translators published their translation of Mark in 1972. The work was taken over

neg: Bible translations into Dutch a work in progress since 1991, and the Torah translation of the Societas Hebraica Amstelodamensis. In December 2010, the "Herziene Statenvertaling" (revised States Bible) was released. In October 2014, the "Bijbel in gewone taal" (Bible in normal language) was released. Bible translations into Dutch Philips of Marnix, lord of Saint-Aldegonde (1538–1598), who was among the leaders of the Dutch War of Independence wrote one of the earliest Bible translations into Dutch. His translation influenced the later Statenvertaling or "States' Bible." The first official Bible translation into Dutch directly from Greek and Hebrew sources was the "Statenvertaling". It was ordered by

neg: Bible translations into Native American languages worked on this project. Jonathan Meeker's translation of Matthew and John in the Ottawa dialect appeared in 1841-44. P. Jones's Ottawa dialect translation of Genesis was published in 1835 by the Toronto Auxiliary Bible Society. Mark and John have also been translated into the Ojicree dialect. Matthew and the Acts were translated by Johnston Lykins and published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1844. The first Bible portion in Arapaho language (Algonquian family) was translated by John Kliewer, a Mennonite missionary, who translated Matthew 9:1-8. This was published with commentary in a ten-page pamphlet by Wm. J. Krehbiel

neg: Hakka Bible: Today's Taiwan Hakka Version hence the restrictions on using the Romanized alphabet were eased. The first translation period of the Bible into the Romanized Taiwanese Hakka dialect were undertaken from 1956 to 1972 and the translations were based on other previously existing Romanised Bible version. For Hakka Chinese character translations, portions of it were based on the Chinese Union Version Bible. In 1965, the Gospel of John alone was translated. The second translation period began on May 10, 1984 with the formation of the "Hakka Bible Translation Committee" with members from the Bible Society in Taiwan, the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, and the Presbyterian

neg: 1 John 5 1 John 5 1 John 5 is the fifth and the last chapter of the First Epistle of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle. This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible): From the New King James Version: Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. From the New King James Version: This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only

neg: British and Foreign Bible Society of affordable Bibles in Welsh for Welsh-speaking Christians. Many young girls had walked long distances to Rev Thomas Charles to get copies of the Bible. Later the story was told of one of them - a young girl called Mary Jones who walked over 20 miles to get a Bible in Bala, Gwynedd. BFBS was not the first Bible Society in the world. The first organisation in Britain to be called "The Bible Society" was founded in 1779 and now called the Naval, Military and Air Force Bible Society. The first BFBS translation project was the Gospel of John into

neg: Wycliffe's Bible version; this suggests that the early version may have been meant as a rough draft that was to be recast into the somewhat better English of the second version. The second version, though somewhat improved, still retained a number of infelicities of style, as in its version of Genesis 1:3 The familiar verse of is rendered in the later Wycliffe version as: The later revised version of Wycliffe's Bible was issued ten to twelve years after Wycliffe's death. This version is translated by John Purvey, who diligently worked on the translation of Wycliffe's Bible, as can be seen in the

neg: The Holy Bible (album) cut deeper." Upon its re-release ten years later, Dan Martin of "NME" described "The Holy Bible" as "a work of genuine genius". Joe Tangari of Pitchfork wrote: "In a way, the story of Edwards' spiral into some unknown oblivion is tied to the experience of "The Holy Bible", which in retrospect has become a sort of horror-show eulogy for a man who couldn't live with the world around him." David Fricke of "Rolling Stone" wrote that "even the pall of [Edwards'] absence can't cancel out the life-affirming force that hits you with the very first song". Mark Edwards of "Stylus

neg: P. A. K. Aboagye save a lot of marriages that were in trouble. Among his numerous publications were: He also helped translate the old and new testament versions of the bible into Nzema and co-wrote a number of textbooks for junior and senior secondary school curricula. As at the time of writing, a posthumous publication of 'my wife's ghost'(a book he wrote) is almost complete and narrates the way in which the ghost of his first wife who died whilst giving birth, possessed his second wife at regular intervals. P. A. K. Aboagye Paul Alfred Kwesi Aboagye (5 January 1925 – 19 June 2001)

neg: Satchel Paige Mobile, Alabama and accompanied Paige's family to the County Health Department to obtain his birth certificate. Paige's birth certificate is displayed in his autobiography. In 1959, Paige's mother told a reporter that he was 55 rather than 53, saying she knew this because she wrote it down in her Bible. Paige wrote in his autobiography, "Seems like Mom's Bible would know, but she ain't ever shown me the Bible. Anyway, she was in her nineties when she told the reporter that, and sometimes she tended to forget things." Satchel was born Leroy Robert Page to John Page, a gardener, and

neg: Thumb Bible pages of six lines. In 1614, John Taylor published his "Verbum Sempiternum", which also summarised the Bible in verse form. These were designed to provide instruction to children who were not old enough to read the Bible itself. The first Thumb Bible in prose was published in London in 1727, under the title "Biblia or a Practical Summary of ye Old & New Testaments". This contained 300 pages and measured 3.6 by 2.4 cm (1.4 by 0.9 in). The term 'Thumb Bible' was first coined by Longman and Co. of London in the mid-nineteenth century, when they used it on

neg: Harold Hoehner a major portion of his later years as a Bible translator, serving on the translation or review teams for the revision of the New Century Version (1991), the update of the New American Standard Bible (1995), the English Standard Version (2001), the second edition of the New Living Translation (2004), and the first edition of the NET Bible (2005). He was a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Evangelical Theological Society, Institute for Biblical Research, the Society for New Testament Studies, and the board of directors for Jews for Jesus. Hoehner wrote for several scholarly journals, including more

neg: New Testament traditionally been identified with John the Apostle to whom the Gospel and the epistles of John were attributed. It was believed that he was exiled to the island of Patmos during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian, and there wrote Revelation. Justin Martyr (c. 100–165 AD) who was acquainted with Polycarp, who had been mentored by John, makes a possible allusion to this book, and credits John as the source. Irenaeus (c. 115–202) assumes it as a conceded point. According to the "Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible", modern scholars are divided between the apostolic view and several alternative

neg: 2 Timothy 4 2 Timothy 4 2 Timothy 4 is the fourth (and the last) chapter of the Second Epistle to Timothy in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and addressed to Saint Timothy. This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible): New King James Version New King James Version New King James Version The beloved physician, who wrote the Gospel that bears his name, and "the Acts of the Apostles", and was a constant companion of Paul's in his travels and sufferings: who might be at Ephesus, or

neg: Bible John convicted serial killer Peter Tobin may have been Bible John. Tobin had been convicted in May 2007 of the 2006 murder of a Polish student named Angelika Kluk, who had been raped, beaten, then stabbed to death; he had relocated from Shettleston, Glasgow to England in 1969 after marrying his first wife, whom he had met at the Barrowland Ballroom the same year as the murders attributed to Bible John had ended. Tobin would subsequently live in Brighton for 20 years from 1969, although from the late 1980s, he would alternately reside in either Scotland or the South of England.

neg: George Washington Inaugural Bible Otis, Secretary of the Senate. With them were John Adams, who had been elected Vice President; George Clinton, first Governor of New York; Philip Schuyler, John Jay, Maj. Gen. Henry Knox, Jacob Morton (Master of St. John's Lodge, who had retrieved the Lodge Bible when they discovered none had been provided), and other distinguished guests. Without reliable contemporary accounts, the most common account of the event is that after taking his oath, Washington kissed the Bible reverently, closed his eyes and in an attitude of devotion said "So help me God", though this claim is disputed. Livingston then exclaimed, "It

neg: Scheide Library Europe to possess all four of the first printed bibles: The Gutenberg Bible, the 1460 Bible (or Mentelin Bible), the 36-line Bible, and the 1462 Bible. Other notable holdings include manuscripts by Abraham Lincoln, J.S. Bach, and Ludwig van Beethoven, a copy of the Declaration of Independence, and first editions of Shakespeare, and Milton. The library also holds significant collections of medieval manuscripts and incunabula, printed books on travel and exploration, and Americana. The Scheide Library was assembled by three generations of collectors, William T. Scheide, his son, John H. Scheide, and grandson, William H. Scheide, who founded the Bach

neg: John Kitto observations with details from the journals of other travellers, and helped the Bible reader to understand many things previously obscure or contradictory to the Western mind. His careful research into the geography, biology and archaeology of Bible lands served to support and encourage confidence in the accuracy of the Bible. In his generation Dr Kitto was a most significant contributor to Christian scholarship, and he provided much help for Evangelicals defending the Bible against the attack of liberal critics. He eventually wrote a total of twenty-three books, of which Charles Spurgeon considered the "Daily Bible Illustrations" to be "more interesting

neg: The Lord's Recovery of sin, sanctification, and open-air preaching; Bible expositors among the Brethren such as John Nelson Darby, Edward Cronin and Anthony Norris Groves, William Kelly, Charles Henry Mackintosh, Benjamin Wills Newton, and John Gifford Bellett; Charles Stanley; George Cutting who wrote ‘’Safety, Certainty, and Enjoyment;’’ Robert Govett who taught on the matter of Christian reward; Bibles expositors such as George Hawkins Pember, David Morrieson Panton, Hudson Taylor; George Müller who taught on prayer and faith in God’s word; some among the Christian and Missionary Alliance such as Albert Benjamin Simpson and A. J Gordon who taught practiced living by faith and

neg: John Coldstream John Coldstream John Coldstream (1806–1863) was a Scottish physician. Coldstream, only son of Robert Coldstream, merchant in Timber Bush, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Phillips of Stobcross, Glasgow, was born at Leith on 19 March 1806, and after attending the Royal High School, Edinburgh, continued his studies at the university. He took an interest in Bible and missionary societies, and in 1822 wrote the report of the Leith Juvenile Bible Society. When he decided to study medicine, Coldstream became apprenticed to Dr. Charles Anderson, a general practitioner in Leith and one of the founders of the Wernerian Society.

neg: John Collinges Great Plague and destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London. It was rewritten and published in 1675, because of certain slanders, and contains accounts of the lives of Lady Frances Hobart, and Lady Katharine Courten who married William Courten, daughters of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater. Collinges also wrote the annotations in Matthew Poole's Bible on the last six chapters of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentation, the four Evangelists, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians 1 and 2 Timothy, Philemon, and Revelation. John Collinges John Collinges (1623–1690) was an English presbyterian theologian, and prolific writer. He lived and worked in

neg: Abraham ibn Ezra of this commentary ("editio princeps" Naples 1488. "See image at right"), the commentary on the Book of Exodus is replaced by a second, more complete commentary of Ibn Ezra, while the first and shorter commentary on Exodus was not printed until 1840. The great editions of the Hebrew Bible with rabbinical commentaries contained also commentaries of Ibn Ezra's on the following books of the Bible: Isaiah, Minor Prophets, Psalms, Job, Torah, Daniel; the commentaries on Proverbs and Ezra–Nehemiah bearing his name are really those of Moses Kimhi. Ibn Ezra wrote a second commentary on Genesis as he had done on

neg: Psalm 84 stanzas, which is published in 213 hymnals. John Milton, the author of "Paradise Lost", wrote a hymn in condensed form of four short stanzas, "How lovely are Thy dwellings fair!", which appears in 58 hymnals. Psalm 84 Psalm 84 is the 84th psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!". The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in

neg: John Ratcliff (bookbinder) Ratcliff in Boston in 1682, was "Fast Sermon at Weathersfield." This 1678 sermon was written by Joseph Rowlandson of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Another publication, also printed in Boston in 1682 was, "A Poem dedicated to the Memory of the Reverend and Excellent Mr. Urian Oakes, the late Pastor to Christ's Flock, and President of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge" who died in 1681 at age fifty. Cotton Mather wrote the poem when he was nineteen years old as his first published work. Ratcliff of Boston, Massachusetts bound 200 of the 1500 copies of Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663 for influential noblemen and

neg: John Edward Church Dr. Joe felt called to full time ministerial missions in Rwanda and Uganda and his younger brother, Dr. Bill Church, took over for him at Gahini Hospital. Dr. Joe Church and his family moved to Kabale, Uganda where he would focus on his evangelical missions for eight years. In his first year of full time evangelical missions, Dr. Joe wrote a book of Bible studies titled "Every Man a Bible Student" with over 40 studies. Dr. Joe used this book as a tool to train young men interested in ministry around Uganda and Rwanda. Aside from training future ministry workers,

neg: Freethought Dominican friar, by the Inquisition. The term "free-thinker" emerged towards the end of the 17th century in England to describe those who stood in opposition to the institution of the Church, and the literal belief in the Bible. The beliefs of these individuals were centered on the concept that people could understand the world through consideration of nature. Such positions were formally documented for the first time in 1697 by William Molyneux in a widely publicized letter to John Locke, and more extensively in 1713, when Anthony Collins wrote his "Discourse of Free-thinking," which gained substantial popularity. This essay attacks

neg: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations The book contains a thorough keyword index and details the source of each quotation. John Bartlett, who ran the University Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was frequently asked for information on quotations and he began a commonplace book of them for reference. In 1855, he privately printed his compilation as "A Collection of Familiar Quotations". This first edition contained 258 pages of quotations by 169 authors, chiefly the Bible, William Shakespeare, and the great English poets. Bartlett wrote in the fourth edition that "it is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that may belong to

neg: Criticism of Muhammad the Islamic Caliphate was John of Damascus (c. 676–749 AD), who was familiar with Islam and Arabic. The second chapter of his book, "The Fount of Wisdom", titled "Concerning Heresies", presents a series of discussions between Christians and Muslims. John claimed that an Arian monk (whom he did not know was Bahira) influenced Muhammad and the writer viewed the Islamic doctrines as nothing more than a hodgepodge culled from the Bible. Among the first sources representing Muhammad is the polemical work "Concerning Heresy" (Perì hairéseōn) of John of Damascus, translated from Greek into Latin. In this manuscript, the Syrian priest

neg: John Evans (died 1779) seen through the press the Welsh bible of 1769 (twenty thousand copies); he translated Bishop Gastrell's ‘Christian Institutes,’ 1773. A second edition of the ‘Harmony’ was published in 1804. John Evans (died 1779) John Evans (died 1779), was curate of Portsmouth. Evans was born at Meini Gwynion, Llanarth, Cardiganshire, and was educated at Oxford. His first curacy was that of Llanarth, whence he removed to Portsmouth. The author of the ‘Welsh Bibliography’ supposed him to have been the Ioan Evans who translated Dr. Jabez Earle's ‘Meditations on the Sacraments,’ 1735; his ‘Harmony of the Four Gospels’ was published in 1765.

neg: Origen Origen resumed work on his "Commentary on John", composing at least books six through ten. In the first of these books, Origen compares himself to "an Israelite who has escaped the perverse persecution of the Egyptians." Origen also wrote the treatise "On Prayer" at the request of his friend Ambrose and his "sister" Tatiana, in which he analyzes the different types of prayers described in the Bible and offers a detailed exegesis on the Lord's Prayer. Not only Christians, but also pagans took a fascination with Origen. The Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry heard of Origen's fame and travelled to Caesarea to

neg: John Coltrane paths were efficacious, and wrote of the similarities between Krishna and Christ. This openness to different traditions resonated with Coltrane, who studied the Qur'an, the Bible, Kabbalah, and astrology with equal sincerity." He also explored Hinduism, Jiddu Krishnamurti, African history, the philosophical teachings of Plato and Aristotle, and Zen Buddhism. In October 1965, Coltrane recorded "Om", referring to the sacred syllable in Hinduism, which symbolizes the infinite or the entire Universe. Coltrane described "Om" as the "first syllable, the primal word, the word of power". The 29-minute recording contains chants from the Hindu "Bhagavad Gita" and the Buddhist "Tibetan Book

neg: Broughty Castle left 100 men guarded by three ships. The garrison was first led by Sir Andrew Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland's brother, who hoped to distribute Tyndale's Bible in Dundee. Andrew Dudley wrote in October 1547 that; "never had a man had so weak a company of soldiers given to drinking, eating and slothfulness," although, "the house stands well." The town of Dundee agreed to support the garrison and resist the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran on 27 October 1547. The Constable of Dundee, John Scrimgeour, and the baillies and council signed the agreement, although under the duress of Dudley's two

neg: Gail Riplinger Gail Riplinger Gail Anne Riplinger (born 1947) is an American writer and speaker known for her advocacy of the King James Only movement and denunciation of modern English Bible translations and the Christians who promote them. In 1993, Riplinger wrote a comparison of popular Bible translations to the King James Version, "New Age Bible Versions". She also wrote "The Language of the King James Bible", "Which Bible is God's Word", "In Awe of Thy Word", "The Hidden History of the English Scriptures", "Blind Guides", and "Hazardous Materials: Greek and Hebrew Study Dangers". She has spoken out against the people behind

neg: Gail Riplinger has "fallen out of favor among many fundamentalists due to her unusual associations, shrill tone, and dubious background". Gail Riplinger Gail Anne Riplinger (born 1947) is an American writer and speaker known for her advocacy of the King James Only movement and denunciation of modern English Bible translations and the Christians who promote them. In 1993, Riplinger wrote a comparison of popular Bible translations to the King James Version, "New Age Bible Versions". She also wrote "The Language of the King James Bible", "Which Bible is God's Word", "In Awe of Thy Word", "The Hidden History of the English Scriptures",

neg: American Bible Society American Bible Society was founded in 1816 by people who were committed to the Bible and to the end of slavery. The first President was Elias Boudinot, who had been President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was named president in 1821, and a number of illustrious individuals like Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Johns Hopkins University President Daniel Coit Gilman and Edwin Francis Hyde, a former president of the Philharmonic Society of New York, headed up the organization over the years. Francis Scott Key, the writer of

neg: Errol Manners Errol Manners Sir Errol Manners K.B.E (1883–1953) was a distinguished Royal Navy admiral and author on theology and British Israelism. He completed fifty-two ocean convoys during the Second World War, including ONM 249 which consisted of 153 ships. He wrote segments of research in a lengthy book titled "Bible Research" published in 1946, which quickly became popular among proponents of British Israelism for its chapter titled "The Hebrew origin of English. Israelite heraldry in Anglo-Saxon countries". He and his three sons, Rodney, John and Sherard, all served as naval officers in World War II. John was Lieutenant Commander aboard "HMS

neg: Walden 1980. Today, despite these criticisms, "Walden" stands as one of America's most celebrated works of literature. John Updike wrote of "Walden", "A century and a half after its publication, "Walden" has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible." The American psychologist B. F. Skinner wrote that he carried a copy of "Walden" with him in his youth, and eventually wrote "Walden Two" in 1945, a fictional utopia about 1,000 members who

neg: Gutenberg Bible most valuable books, although no complete copy has been sold since 1978. In March 1455, the future Pope Pius II wrote that he had seen pages from the Gutenberg Bible displayed in Frankfurt to promote the edition. It is not known how many copies were printed; the 1455 letter cites sources for both 158 and 180 copies. The 36-line Bible, said to be the second printed Bible, is also referred to sometimes as a Gutenberg Bible, but may be the work of another printer. The Gutenberg Bible, an edition of the Vulgate, contains the Latin version of both the Hebrew

neg: Bible translations into Native American languages from the Bible, specifically the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, Matt 5:3-10 (the Beatitudes), John 14, 1 Timothy 1:16, John 3:16, and John 11:25, 26. Alfred James Hall, working together with William Brotchie translated portions of the Bible into the Kwak'wala language. Matthew was published in 1882 by the British and Foreign Bible Society. John was published in 1884, Luke in 1894, Acts in 1897 and Mark in 1900. All were published by the British and Foreign Bible Society. The first portion of the Bible in Haida language (Language isolate) of Alaska, 500 copies of Matthew, became available in 1891.

neg: Anthony Gilby he discussed the supremacy of God, is represented in the Geneva Bible’s explanatory notes. He also wrote a preface to "The Appellation from the Sentence Pronounced by the Bishops and Clergy" by John Knox called "An Admonition to England and Scotland, to call them to Repentance", in 1558. Some of his additional works include: Anthony Gilby Anthony Gilby (c.1510–1585) was an English clergyman, known as a radical Puritan and translator of the Geneva Bible, the first English Bible available to the general public. He was born in Lincolnshire, and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1535. In Gilby's

neg: Internal consistency of the Bible Hobbes may have been the first European to question this attribution in print, arguing that the words can "only sensibly be used by someone who is writing when the Canaanites no longer are in the land ... But the Canaanites were in the land when Moses was alive." Rabin also quotes the 11th-century rabbi, Rashi, as saying that Moses could not have written, in Deuteronomy 34:5, "And Moses died there", but it must have been written by Joshua. However, it is also noted that the second-century commentator Rabbi Meir, has it that God dictated those words to Moses, who wrote

neg: Christoph Sauer Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Nach der Deutschen Übersetzung D. Martin Luther"". (Bible: The Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments following the translation of Dr. Martin Luther). Another 40 years would pass before an English-language Bible would appear in North America. It was three years in press, the largest work as yet issued in the colonies, and was the first Bible printed in the American colonies, with the exception of John Eliot's Indian Bible. Controversially, Sauer's Bible emphasized passages most in sympathy with Pietist beliefs. It was well received by the German churches of Pennsylvania, who were

neg: Tewabech Ali no children, and after she died reportedly his British friend John Bell had to persuade Tewodros that a second marriage was not against the teaching of the Bible. Some historians like Paul B. Henze, believe Tewabech had a positive effect on Tewodros, and his violent and erratic behavior in the last ten years of his reign was due in part to the lack of advice from her, and other advisors like John Bell and Walter Plowden (who were killed in 1860). Tewabech Ali Tewabech Ali (1831 - 19 August 1858) was the first wife of Kassa Haile, better known as

neg: John Bois in Ely. He had four sons and three daughters, none of whom survived their father. His wife died two years before him. He assisted Henry Savile with the translation of the works of John Chrysostom. In 1604 he was recruited for one of the Cambridge committees set up to translate the Bible into English. He also served in the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with translating the Apocrypha for the King James Version of the Bible. As well as his own work, he assisted in the work of the "First Cambridge Company" translating from Chronicles to

neg: Catholic Church in China Catholics. The Franciscan Odoric of Pordenone visited China during this era. Katarina Vilioni's Catholic tombstone was found in Yangzhou. The mission had some success during the rule of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, but various factors led to an ultimate shrinking of the mission. Six centuries later, however, John of Montecorvino's attempt at the translation of the Bible became the inspiration for another Franciscan, the Blessed Gabriele Allegra, to go to China and in 1968 complete the first translation of the Catholic Bible into the Chinese language, after a 40-year personal effort. Hayton of Corycus wrote about China. It was reported

neg: John W. Peterson John W. Peterson John Willard Peterson (November 1, 1921 – September 20, 2006) was a songwriter who had a major influence on evangelical Christian music in the 1950s through the 1970s. He wrote over 1000 songs, and 35 cantatas. Born in Lindsborg, Kansas, he served as an Army Air Force pilot flying the "China Hump" during World War II. Later, he attended Moody Bible Institute and served on the radio staff there for a number of years. In 1953, he graduated from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and shortly thereafter settled in Pennsylvania to continue his songwriting career.

neg: John Calvin Church (USA). John Calvin John Calvin (; Calvin was a tireless polemic and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. In addition to his seminal "Institutes of the Christian Religion", Calvin wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, confessional documents, and various other theological treatises. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530. After religious tensions erupted in widespread deadly violence against Protestant Christians in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where in 1536 he published the

neg: John Onesimus Foster teacher in the country. Foster, who was considered "an inventor of many ingenious devices and processes", also worked as an editor and wrote several books, including "The Heart of the Bible". In 1863 Foster married Caroline Amelia Bolles, with whom he fathered Grace Ida Foster. Grace Foster became a missionary, and married the minister Stephen J. Herben, also a Garrett Institute alumnus. Foster died on November 3, 1920, in Seattle, at the age of 86. At the time he was believed to be the oldest professor still actively teaching in the United States. John Onesimus Foster John Onesimus Foster (December

neg: John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth "Christian Observer", and the earlier annual reports of the Bible Society were written by him. He was also the author of some mediocre verse. He published: A portrait of Teignmouth was painted by Arthur William Devis. Teignmouth had three sons and six daughters by his wife, who died on 13 July 1834. He was succeeded in the title by his eldest son, Charles John Shore. His second son, Frederick John married in 1830 Charlotte Mary Cornish of Devonshire. The second daughter Anna Maria married Thomas Noel Hill, who had fought at the Battle of Waterloo. His daughter Caroline Dorothea married

neg: John Carik John Carik John Carik is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was featured as the main supporting character in the mid-1990s series "Blade: The Vampire Hunter", and was created by Ian Edginton and Douglas H. Wheatley. He was exclusively referred to in the solicitations for "Blade the Vampire Hunter" as Bible John and the use of that nickname was established in the first issue. However, the name Bible John was rarely used in other issues. He is the one of the last of an order of warrior/scholars named the Cathari, who all take

neg: Mark 9 John was not written by the Apostle John, or John knew the synoptics were circulating and wrote his gospel to fill in details he thought lacking in them. Mark 9 Mark 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It begins with Jesus' prediction that "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power". The chapter then recounts the transfiguration of Jesus, a healing miracle, and Jesus' teaching about the return of Elijah,