Bible

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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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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

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Gospel of Luke partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
Gospel of Mark partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
Gospel of Matthew partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Kings partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Old Testament
Lamentations partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Old Testament
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Christian Old Testament
Luke 21 partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
New Testament partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
Prophetic Books partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Prophets partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Psalm 117 partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Old Testament
Psalm 119 partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Psalm 90 partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Psalms partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Psalter partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Old Testament
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
this entity surface form: Christian Bible
Wisdom Literature partOf Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Bibles
this entity surface form: Old Testament
subject surface form: The Selling of Joseph
subject surface form: The Selling of Joseph
this entity surface form: Old Testament
this entity surface form: Protestant Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament
Issachar religiousText 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
Sons of Korah sacredText Bible
this entity surface form: Old Testament