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But they do say as how your faither was a minister, and that ye do ken a great deal about the Bible and all.

It is sometimes said that the origin and growth of the Anabaptists was due to the German translation of the Bible.

Bible, Judith annointed herself with perfumes, including lavender, before seducing Holofernes, the enemy commander.

Geneva Bible continued to hold its position in English affections, at least partly because it was so useful for its notes and appendices, a guidebook to the world of the divine.

Still dazed, I found the copy of the New English Bible and, confronting Beth in the bacchante room, swore on the Book never to have anything to do with Tamar again.

It must be remembered that the Koran is the work of Muhammad alone, while the Biblos, or Book, commonly called the Bible, is the work of many men.

It was also called biblos by Homer and Herodotus, whence our term bible.

This phenomenon is constantly reported in the Bible, in the Lives of the Saints by the Bollandists, in the experiences of the early Irvingites, in witch trials, in Iamblichus, and in savage and European folklore.

Ay, and when he thinks of the plenty of bible swords which he left behind him, destined to prove, and which have already proved, pretty calthrops in the heels of Popery.

As in most homes, the day at Canons Grange began with the household assembling for prayers and a Bible reading.

The only thing I found that rattled the mom was a Christer Bible tucked into the back of the bottom drawer of the nightstand.

He also is coeditor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha and general editor of more than twenty-five volumes in the series New Testament Tools and Studies.

The order of the books of the Hebrew Bible differs from that of the Christian Old Testament, while the Catholic OT has inter-testamental books and the Protestant OT does not.

Bible class and pass out dinkey little reward-of-merit cards to the prize pupils!

Sometimes she would be assisted by a giant figure, black as a bible and stripped to the waist, an unrecognizable apprentice who, obedient as a djin, would calmly execute her every order.