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Tiqqūn sōferīm (Hebrew: תיקון סופרים, plural תיקוני סופרים tiqqūnēi sōferīm) is a term from rabbinic literature meaning "correction/emendation of the scribes" or "scribal correction" and refers to a change of wording in the Tanakh in order to preserve the honor of God or for a similar reason.
Fraternal correction (correctio fraterna) is a Christian social practice in which a private individual confronts a peer directly, and ordinarily privately, about a perceived wrongdoing, as opposed to an official discipline passed down by a superior.
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin ) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament , as well as extracanonical ...
Noah Webster's 1833 limited revision of the King James Version, (more commonly called Webster Bible) focused mainly on replacing archaic words and making simple grammatical changes.
Abid Rogers Bhatti in his book A Textbook of Soteriology writes about the meaning of metanoia/μετάνοια. In the Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu, the word for “repentance” is toba. Toba means regret, grief, and sorrow over sinful deeds that lead to a change of mind and life.
Some regard it as a correction of biblical language authorized by the Soferim for homiletical purposes. Others take it to mean a mental change made by the original writers or redactors of Scripture; i.e. the latter shrank from putting in writing a thought which some of the readers might expect them to express.
The nature of biblical authority is that it involves critique of the Bible and sources of biblical literature in order to determine the accuracy and authority of its information in regards to communicating the word of God. [5] It examines biblical literature in order to guide practice.
This can be understood in one of three ways. Some authors use "inerrancy" and "infallibility" interchangeably. For others, "inerrancy" refers to complete inerrancy and "infallibility" to the more limited view that the Bible is without error in conveying God's self-revelation to humanity.
The marginal and interlinear glosses are derived from the Paris Bible and the correctory of the Dominican priest Theobald; the make-up of the work imitates the Dominican correctories. The Correctorium Vaticanum owes its name to the circumstance that its first known manuscript was the Cod.