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Featured studies
33 results- StudyThe Spirit in the Old TestamentA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyHebrew Roots: the language of the Old TestamentHow the Hebrew alphabet works, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Hebrew Hebrew: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-two letters.
- StudyGreek Roots: the language of the New TestamentHow the Greek alphabet was borrowed from Phoenician, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Koine Koine: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-four letters.
- StudyThe Greek words behind the New TestamentAgape, logos, charis, koinonia, parousia, ekklesia: what the New Testament's keywords meant in ordinary Greek first, plus the fish, the chi-rho and the sacred names, dated from the sources.
- StudyThe Quotation Web: the Old Testament inside the NewEvery explicit place the New Testament quotes the Old, speaker named and receipt attached, from the floor quotation index.
Subjects
1 resultPeople
4 results- PersonHabakkukThe prophet who put his complaint to God and stationed himself on the watchtower for the answer (Hab 2:1); received the line the New Testament quotes three times — the just…
- PersonPaul the ApostleFirst-century apostle to the Gentiles; former Pharisee turned missionary and author of a significant portion of the New Testament.
- PersonPaul the ApostleThe apostle to the Gentiles — once Saul the persecutor, arrested by the risen Christ on the Damascus road; author of Romans and thirteen New Testament letters.
- PersonDemasPaul's fellow-worker (Col 4:14; Phlm 24) who later forsook him, having loved this present world (2 Tim 4:10) — the New Testament's quiet cautionary arc.
Manuscripts
6 results- ManuscriptCodex Ambrosianus (the Syriac Old Testament)The earliest complete Old Testament in Syriac, and the manuscript the modern scholarly edition is built on.
- ManuscriptSeptuagintThe Greek Old Testament, translated in the third century BC and after. It is a family of copies, and the site holds the chief ones.
- ManuscriptCodex SinaiticusA 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible, one of the two earliest substantially complete witnesses to the Septuagint and New Testament.
- ManuscriptThe Leningrad CodexThe oldest complete Hebrew Bible that survived in one piece — and the book almost every modern Old Testament is translated from.
- ManuscriptThe Rylands Fragment of John (P52)A scrap of John's Gospel about the size of a credit card, and for most of a century the oldest piece of the New Testament anyone had.
Words (Strong's)
4 results- WordG1242 διαθήκη · diathḗkē (Greek)properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will). The Greek word stands 33 times in the original text.
- WordG907 βαπτίζω · baptízō (Greek)to immerse, submerge. The Greek word stands 76 times in the original text.
- WordG922 βάρος · báros (Greek)weight. The Greek word stands 5 times in the original text.
- WordG911 βάπτω · báptō (Greek)to whelm, i.e. cover wholly with a fluid. The Greek word stands 4 times in the original text.
Concepts
1 resultThemes
5 results- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
3 results- ProphecyResurrection of Old Testament SaintsAll the dead will be resurrected for judgment - some to life, some to condemnation.
- ProphecyGreat Shepherd Brought Again from DeadOld Testament shepherd imagery applied to the deliverer who leads God's people through waters (Isaiah 63) finds fulfillment in the New Testament's Great Shepherd brought back…
- ProphecyAscension to the Right Hand of GodPsalm 110 is the most-quoted Old Testament passage in the New Testament. David calls the Messiah 'my Lord' and prophesies that God will invite Him to sit at His right hand—a…
Apologetics
6 results- ApologeticsReliability of the New Testament ManuscriptsThe Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster registers just under 6,000 Greek New Testament manuscripts — roughly 140 papyri, 320 majuscules, 2,900 minuscules…
- ApologeticsThe Septuagint and New Testament QuotationsRoughly two-thirds of the New Testament's some 300 Old Testament quotations follow the Greek Septuagint rather than the Hebrew that became the Masoretic Text. The Dead Sea…
- ApologeticsCodex Sinaiticus (~350 AD)Codex Sinaiticus, copied around AD 330–360, is the oldest surviving complete New Testament and the oldest Christian Bible bound in a single volume. Its roughly 400 surviving…
- ApologeticsThe Minimal Facts Resurrection ArgumentGerd Ludemann, an atheist New Testament scholar at Gottingen, wrote that it may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus' death…
- ApologeticsIsrael's Regathering: A Nation Reborn in a DayMultiple Old Testament prophets predicted that Israel would be scattered and then regathered from all nations—a prediction fulfilled uniquely in 1948 when the modern State of…
Voices
4 results- VoiceWilliam TyndaleWilliam Tyndale asked permission to translate the New Testament into English and was refused, so he left England and did it anyway — from Erasmus's Greek text, not the Latin, a…
- VoiceJustin MartyrJustin was born around 100 at Flavia Neapolis in Samaria — the town the Old Testament calls Shechem, now Nablus — to a Greek-speaking pagan family. He tells his own story in…
- VoiceMiles CoverdaleMiles Coverdale was an English friar who left his order, fled abroad, and helped William Tyndale with his translation work. When Tyndale was arrested with the Old Testament…
- VoiceN.T. WrightN.T. Wright is a leading New Testament scholar, former Bishop of Durham, and prolific author whose work on the historical Jesus and Paul has reshaped biblical studies. His "New…