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Biblical Chronology The events related in Holy Scripture are only occasionally correlated with events of secular history and are seldom dated according to an era or epoch. Hence, an attempt to fix the period of these events according to the Christian era necessarily results in a variety of opinion. Some events can be dated with … Continue reading “Biblical Chronology”

Biblical Antiquities This department of archæology has been variously defined and classified. Some scholars have included in it even Biblical chronology, geography, and natural history, but wrongly so, as these three branches of Biblical science belong rather to the external environment of history proper. Archæology, properly speaking, is the science of antiquities, and of those … Continue reading “Biblical Antiquities”

Biblical accommodation (Latin: accommodate, to adapt) The application of biblical words, because of some similarity or analogy, to that which was not intended by the author. The words, “O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow” (Lamentations, 1), are spoken of Jerusalem personified, … Continue reading “Biblical Accommodation”

Bibliander, Theodore a Swiss divine of the Reformation period, whose proper name was Buchmann. He was born in Thurgau about 1500. After studying theology he became assistant to Myconius at Zurich, and afterward, in 1532, professor of theology and Biblical literature. He died of the plague at Zurich in 1564. He was eminent especially for … Continue reading “Bibliander, Theodore (2)”

Biblia Pauperum (Bible Of The Poor) (I.) The title given to a Bible Manual, or Picture-Bible, prepared in the Middle Ages for the use of children of the poor, whence its name. It consisted of forty to fifty pictures, giving the, events of the life of Christ, and some O.T. events, each picture being accompanied … Continue reading “Biblia Pauperum (Bible Of The Poor) (2)”

Biblia Pauperum Bible of the Poor Books popular especially in the 15th century , consisting of about 40 pages of pictures illustrating the New Testament, with appropriate prophetic scenes from the Old on either side of each page and explanatory texts in the corners. Their invention is ascribed to Saint Anschar , Bishop of Bremen. … Continue reading “Biblia Pauperum”

Bibles, rhymed Rhyme is found in the Hebrew text of the poetic books of the Old Testament only sporadically and accidentally; but portions of the Scriptures have been done into rhyme in English, French, and Italian. Among English rhymed versions, mostly of the Psalms, are those of Thomas Brampton (1414), Sir Philip Sydney (1580), and … Continue reading “Bibles, Rhymed”

Bibles, polyglot (Greek: polys, many; glotta, tongue; many-tongued) Printed renditions of the text of Scripture in several languages. The oldest of these Bibles is the Complutensian Polyglot (1514-1517) of Cardinal Ximenes. This work exhibits printed texts of the Old Testament in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, and of the New Testament in Greek and Latin. Worthy … Continue reading “Bibles, polyglot”

Bibles, Picture Manuscript books in which copious illustrations with short accompanying texts, or commentaries, made up an almost complete Bible. Among the earliest, the “Bible Moralisee” (in allusion to the moral lessons frequently interspersed), or “Bible Historiee,” a work of the 13th century, is preserved in sections in the Bodleian Library (Oxford), the British Museum, … Continue reading “Bibles, Picture”

Bibles, Pictorial SEE PICTORIAL BIBLES. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature