Modern scholarship focuses on the lexical or syntactical features of Buddhist Chinese used in translations scriptures; however, origins language have attracted relatively little attention. Our article explores issue from perspective speech community, and we argue that community’s ethnicity played an important role pre-fourth-century development Chinese. scriptures were mainly introduced to inla...

THE TASK OF INTERPRETING THE BIBLE NEVER ENDS. ALTHOUGH THE SCRIPTURES do not change, our interpretation and appropriation of them do. Often Christians have to rethink their understanding of a specific text or set of texts. For me this has occurred with regard to Mark 10:13-16, the familiar scene that depicts Jesus’ reception of the little children brought to him despite his disciples’ objectio...

This research aims to analyze several things, namely: 1) pthe policy procedure of the Head Education Office in increasing understanding Islamic Scriptures State Elementary School South Labuhanbatu Regency. Then 2) implementation holy book at Furthermore, 3) analyzing performance Regency.This is qualitative. The process extracting data holistically, either by means in-depth interviews with a ser...