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Barabbas, according to a representation in The Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons, from 1910. There exist several versions of this figure's name in gospel manuscripts, most commonly simply Biblical Greek: Bαραββᾶς, romanized: Barabbās without a first name.
Portions of the Bible were first translated by Spanish friars into the Philippine languages in the catechisms and prayer materials they produced. The Doctrina Cristiana (1593) was the first book published in the Tagalog baybayin script. Protestants published Ang Biblia (American Standard Version) in 1905 in Tagalog, based on the Spanish version ...
A Christian depiction of Josaphat, 12th century manuscript. Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, [ 1] who historically lived several centuries before Jesus (and thus before Christianity). Their story tells of the conversion of Josaphat to ...
The Prayer of Joseph is a pseudepigraphic writing (a text whose claimed authorship is unfounded) of the Old Testament. It was composed either in Aramaic (if Jewish) or in Greek (if Christian) in the 1st century AD. [1] The text is almost lost and only a few fragments have survived in ancient quotations concerning the Biblical patriarch Jacob.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3522: dated to the 1st century AD, it contains part of Job 42 translated into Greek.. The Book of Job (/ dʒ oʊ b /; Biblical Hebrew: אִיּוֹב, romanized: ʾĪyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1]
Job (biblical figure) Job ( / dʒoʊb / JOHB; Hebrew: אִיּוֹב 'Īyyōv; Greek: Ἰώβ Iṓb) is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible. In Islam, Job ( Arabic: أيوب, romanized : Ayyūb) is also considered a prophet . Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is suddenly beset with horrendous disasters that ...
Laban first appears in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 24:29–60 as the grown spokesman for his father Bethuel 's house; he was impressed by the gold jewelry given to his sister on behalf of Isaac, and played a key part in arranging their marriage. Twenty years later, Laban's nephew Jacob was born to Isaac and Rebekah.
The Joseph Smith Translation (JST), also called the Inspired Version of the Holy Scriptures (IV), is a revision of the Bible by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, who said that the JST/IV was intended to restore what he described as "many important points touching the salvation of men, [that] had been taken from the Bible, or lost before it was compiled".