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• TanakhBible

  Tanakh is the name Judaism uses for the Hebrew Bible. The word is an acronym formed from the Law (Torah), the Prophets (Nevi'im), and the Writings (Ketuvim). Its contents are the same as the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament, but it counts them as twenty-four books and arranges them in a different order.

• Latter ProphetsBible

  The Latter Prophets (Hebrew *Nevi'im Aharonim*) are the second half of the Prophets (Nevi'im), the second division of the Hebrew Bible. The term refers to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, books compiled chiefly from the messages delivered by the prophets.

• Old Testament ApocryphaBible

  The Old Testament Apocrypha is the Protestant term for Jewish writings that appear in Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament but are absent from the Hebrew Bible. The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church accept some of these books as canonical.

• DanielBible

  Daniel is a book of the Old Testament that contains stories of Daniel and his three friends, set during the Babylonian exile, along with visions concerning the end times.

• Samaritan PentateuchBible

  The Samaritan Pentateuch is the Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses that the Samaritan community has preserved from generation to generation. It agrees with the Masoretic Text of Judaism in most respects but differs in certain places, notably in passages that exalt Mount Gerizim as the place of worship.

• Anne (Mother of Mary)People

  Anne is known from the second-century apocryphal Protoevangelium of James as the wife of Joachim and the mother of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. She does not appear in the canonical Bible.

• EpistlesBible

  The Epistles are the twenty-one books of the New Testament, from Romans through Jude, that were written in letter form. They are commonly divided into the Pauline Epistles, Hebrews, and the General Epistles, and within the Pauline Epistles the Prison Epistles and the Pastoral Epistles are often distinguished.

• William CareyPeople

  William Carey (1761–1834) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to India. Through his writings arguing for the duty of foreign missions and his role in founding a missionary society, he is known as the "father of modern missions."

• EcclesiastesBible

  Ecclesiastes is a book of Old Testament wisdom literature. It reflects on the transience, or "vanity," of all things in the world and concludes that fearing God is the whole duty of man.

• Obadiah (Prophet)People

  Obadiah is the prophet traditionally credited with writing the Old Testament Book of Obadiah. He prophesied the judgment of Edom and the restoration of Zion. Scripture names him only in Obadiah 1:1.

• Letter of AristeasHistory

  The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish writing that, presented as the work of a courtier of the Egyptian king, recounts how the Pentateuch was translated into Greek at Alexandria by seventy-two Jewish elders. It contains the story from which the name Septuagint derives.

• PapyrusBible

  Papyrus is an aquatic plant that grows in the marshes of the Nile Valley, and the name also refers to the ancient writing material made from its stalks. In the Old Testament it appears mainly as a plant, and in the New Testament as "paper." It is also important as the material of early New Testament manuscripts.

• New Testament ApocryphaBible

  The New Testament Apocrypha is a collective term for early Christian writings that tell stories about Jesus and the apostles or bear an apostle's name but were not included among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament canon.

• PseudepigraphaBible

  "Pseudepigrapha" is the term Protestants use for Jewish and early Christian writings, composed for the most part around the intertestamental period, that were attributed to ancient figures such as Enoch and Moses. Most churches do not accept these books as canonical.

• Apostolic FathersHistory

  The Apostolic Fathers are the church leaders who were active close to the time of the apostles, from the late first century to the mid-second century. The term also refers to the earliest Christian writings outside the New Testament that they left behind.

• Wisdom LiteratureBible

  Wisdom literature is the body of biblical writings that addresses the principles governing life, suffering, and the meaning of human existence within a faith grounded in the fear of God. In the Old Testament the term refers chiefly to Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.

• Books of the MaccabeesBible

  The Books of the Maccabees are writings that record the Jewish resistance to persecution under the Seleucid dynasty in the second century BC and the martyrdoms that accompanied it. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches accept them as canonical (deuterocanonical), while Protestants classify them as Apocrypha.

• PatristicsDoctrine & Theology

  Patristics is the theological discipline that studies the lives, writings, and thought of the Church Fathers, the theologians and leaders of the early church. It is usually treated as a branch of church history (historical theology).

• Formation of the CanonBible

  The formation of the canon (canonization) is the historical process by which it became settled which of the many writings in circulation were received as Scripture, the norm for faith and life.