Bible

E695

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.

Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

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.

this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Christian Old Testament
Mark 13 locatedInText Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
Matthew 24 locatedInText Bible
Holy Place locationInText Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Abital mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Amorites mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Asher mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Bathsheba mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Belshazzar mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Canaan mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Eglah mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Enoch mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Esau mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Euphrates mentionedIn Bible
Gad mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Gilead mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Haggith mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Harun mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Ibrahim mentionedIn Bible
Idumaean mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Ishbak mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Ishmaelites mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Jebus mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Jekonias mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Jeremiah mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: OldTestament
Jesse mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Jethro mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Korah mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Levi mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Medan mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Midian mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Miriam mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Moses mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Mount Sinai mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Naphtali mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Nehemiah mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Nehushta mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Noah mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Pedaiah mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Perizzites mentionedIn Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament