Bible

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Christian sacred text holy book religious scripture

The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.

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Observed surface forms (23)

Surface form Occurrences
Old Testament 205
Christian Bible 40
Christian Old Testament 23

Statements (87)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian sacred text ⓘ
holy book ⓘ
religious scripture ⓘ
centralFigure God ⓘ
Jesus Christ ⓘ
circulation one of the most widely distributed books in history ⓘ
consideredBy Christians as divinely inspired ⓘ
contains Acts of the Apostles ⓘ
Book of Revelation ⓘ
Epistles ⓘ
Gospels ⓘ
Historical Books ⓘ
Prophetic Books ⓘ
Torah ⓘ
Wisdom Literature ⓘ
excludesDeuterocanonicalBooksIn most Protestant canons ⓘ
genre apocalyptic literature ⓘ
narrative literature ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
prophetic literature ⓘ
religious text ⓘ
wisdom literature ⓘ
hasCanonVariationIn Catholic canon ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form: Orthodox canon

Protestant canon ⓘ
hasMajorDivision Final Judgment ⓘ
surface form: Apocalypse

Catholic Epistles ⓘ
Gospels and Acts ⓘ
Law ⓘ
Pauline Epistles ⓘ
Prophets ⓘ
Writings ⓘ
hasPart Bible self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: New Testament

Bible self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Old Testament
hasTranslation English Standard Version ⓘ
Good News Bible ⓘ
Jerusalem Bible ⓘ
King James Version ⓘ
Louis Segond Bible ⓘ
Luther Bible ⓘ
New American Bible ⓘ
New International Version ⓘ
New King James Version ⓘ
New Living Translation ⓘ
New Revised Standard Version ⓘ
Reina-Valera ⓘ
Septuagint ⓘ
Synodal Bible ⓘ
Vulgate ⓘ
includesDeuterocanonicalBooksIn Catholic canon ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox canon ⓘ
influenced Christian theology ⓘ
Western art ⓘ
Western ethics ⓘ
Western law ⓘ
Western literature ⓘ
Western music ⓘ
Western philosophy ⓘ
isSacredTextOf Anglican Communion ⓘ
surface form: Anglicanism

Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form: Catholic Church

Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church

Evangelicalism ⓘ
Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form: Oriental Orthodox Churches

Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form: Protestantism

Restorationist movements ⓘ
languageOfOriginalText Aramaic ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
Koine Greek ⓘ
overlapsWith Tanakh ⓘ
surface form: Hebrew Bible
relatedWork Tanakh ⓘ
religion Christianity ⓘ
statusInChristianity authoritative scripture ⓘ
foundation of Christian doctrine ⓘ
norm for Christian practice ⓘ
studiedIn biblical studies ⓘ
religious studies ⓘ
theology ⓘ
usedFor devotional reading ⓘ
doctrinal teaching ⓘ
liturgy ⓘ
moral instruction ⓘ
theological study ⓘ
worship ⓘ
usedIn Christian catechesis ⓘ
Christian liturgy ⓘ
Christian preaching ⓘ
viewedAs Word of God by many Christians ⓘ

Referenced by (428)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

JTS → academicFocus → Bible ⓘ
subject surface form: Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Freemasons → allowsText → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: the Bible
Elijah → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Eve → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Hagar → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
I AM → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
Jacob's ladder → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
King Ahasuerus → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
King Solomon → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Laban → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Saint Michael → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
Shlomo → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
subject surface form: Whore of Babylon
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
חַוָּה → appearsIn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
Jesse Tree → associatedWith → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Sacred Scripture
this entity surface form: Scripture
this entity surface form: Old Testament
J.B. → basedOn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Reina-Valera → basedOn → Bible ⓘ
The Living Bible → basedOn → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Bible
Zion theology → basedOnText → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: The Holy Bible
Patience → biblicalSource → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Zilpah → canonicalText → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
God → centralText → Bible ⓘ
Jesus Christ → centralText → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: New Testament
Bishops' Bible → contains → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Codex Sinaiticus → contains → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Geneva Bible → contains → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
GNB → contains → Bible ⓘ
subject surface form: Good News Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Jerusalem Bible → contains → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament
JB → contains → Bible ⓘ
subject surface form: Jerusalem Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Luther Bible → contains → Bible ⓘ
this entity surface form: Old Testament