The Holy Bible, as the root of Western civilization, has imposed great influence in the fields far beyond religion. In this thesis, the author intended to reveal the medical implication in the Holy Bible and its relevance to the modern medical science by exploring the biblical medical information and comparing it with the current medical theory and practice. The conclusion of the exploration is...

The article examines process of globalization as continuation of process the creation of Christendom. The author thinks that translations of Bible from Greek or ancient Jewish on other languages are the example of first step in unification Christendom. And consequently its first step of globalization. Russian translation of Bible is showing distinction from other translations, but experimentall...

Ancient texts can support intertextuality in different ways through digital tools for databases and for tasks that scholars and studentsdo, when they interactwith the texts in new ways. This contribution explores how the corpus of the Hebrew Bible created and maintained by the Eep Talstra Center for Bible and Computer has potential for redefining the way we learn from our ancient texts as moder...

Words With Power was published in 1990; it is the last of forty books of literary criticism written by its author, Northrop Frye, who died in January 1992 at the age of 78. A recent survey of 950 journals reveals that he remains the eighth most frequently cited author in the arts and humanities, among a company that includes Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Freud. A bibliography of his work and comm...

The systematic study of ancient texts including their production, transmission and interpretation is greatly aided by the digital methods that started taking off in the 1970s. But how is that research in turn transmitted to new generations of researchers? We tell a story of Bible and computer across the decades and then point out the current challenges: (1) finding a stable data representation ...

There is an increasing amount of archaeological and linguistic evidence that pterosaurs (flying reptiles) were mentioned by several authors of Scripture. This introductory article will deal with some of those biblical words and what I've learned about them from word studies and archaeology. The scientific basis for this study has been established by articles for peer-reviewed scientific publica...

○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ 1 Michael Drosnin published The Bible Codes [Simon & Schuster] in 1997, in which he claimed messages were hidden in the ancient Hebrew text of the Bible. In his book he claimed he saw the message “assassin who will assassinate” cross the text “Yitzhak Rabin,” Prime Minister of Israel at the time. Shortly thereafter, Rabin was indee...

The proceedings are divided into four sections. The first and largest section comprises papers concerned with disease in the Bible. The topics covered are wide ranging and include military medicine, obstetrics, and the nose and its disorders, as witnessed in the Bible. The second section is devoted to biblical psychology and the soul, and so inevitably strikes a philosophical chord. Miracles an...

The English word ‘Bible’ comes from the Greek word biblion. This word meant “roll” or “book”. It was usually a roll of papyrus or reed-like plant that was dried and fashioned into a writing material. This word occurs in the LXX copy of Daniel 9:2, and in Revelation 10:2. But today the word “Bible” means much more than just a book. It carries a sense of majesty as being the ultimate book par exc...