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The Trijicon biblical verses controversy refers to the stamping of Bible verse references (e.g. " Rev 21 :23") onto optical sights for rifles manufactured by Trijicon. Users and purchasers of the equipment—which included the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and other military units around the world—were unaware of the ...
Bible. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method ( exegesis) that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.
Unclean spirit. Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [ 1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in ...
The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. [ 1] It is about a traveler (implicitly understood to be Jewish) who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. A Jewish priest and then a Levite come by, both avoiding the man. A Samaritan happens upon him, and though Samaritans and Jews were ...
Biblical criticism is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural. During the eighteenth century, when it began as historical-biblical criticism, it was based on two distinguishing characteristics: (1) the scientific concern to avoid dogma and bias by applying a neutral, non-sectarian, reason-based judgment to the study of the Bible ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary states: "The sin of drunkenness... must have been not uncommon in the olden times, for it is mentioned either metaphorically or literally more than seventy times in the Bible", [18] [106] though some suggest it was a "vice of the wealthy rather than of the poor". [107]
Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies.Rahab (/ ˈ r eɪ h æ b /; [1] Hebrew: רָחָב, Modern: Raẖav, Tiberian: Rāḥāḇ, "broad", "large", Arabic: رحاب, a vast space of a land) was, according to the Book of Joshua, a Gentile and a Canaanite woman who resided within Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites by hiding two men who had ...
The Woes of the Pharisees are a series of criticisms by Jesus against scribes and Pharisees recorded in Luke 11 :37–54 and Matthew 23 :1–39. [ 1] Mark 12 :35–40 and Luke 20 :45–47 also include warnings about scribes. Eight are listed in Matthew, and hence Matthew's version is known as the eight woes. These are found in Matthew 23 verses ...