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Day-year principle. The day-year principle or year-for-a-day principle is a method of interpretation of Bible prophecy in which the word day in prophecy is considered to be symbolic of a year of actual time. [1] [2] It was the method used by most of the Reformers, [3] and is used principally by the historicist school of prophetic interpretation ...
Good News Bible ( GNB ), also called the Good News Translation ( GNT) in the United States, is an English translation of the Bible by the American Bible Society. It was first published as the New Testament under the name Good News for Modern Man in 1966. It was anglicised into British English by the British and Foreign Bible Society with the ...
The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer [1] and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, [2] with additions made at recent General Conventions . The veneration of saints in the Episcopal Church (United States) is a continuation of an ancient tradition from the early Church which honors important and ...
The National Bible Bee is a Bible contest held for the first time in 2009 by the Shelby Kennedy Foundation. The competition starts with local contests across the United States . The top 120 contestants from the Primary, ages 7–10; Junior, ages 11–14; and Senior, ages 15–18 divisions advance to the National level.
On National Read a Book Day, Kasey Meehan of PEN America’s Freedom to Read initiative continues to be alarmed at the number of books being taken off of America’s school library shelves. "We ...
In ancient times, twelve thirty-day months were used making a total of 360 days for the year. [citation needed] Abraham, used the 360-day year, which was known in Ur. The Genesis account of the flood in the days of Noah illustrated this 360-day year by recording the 150-day interval till the waters abated from the earth.
v. t. e. German translation of Jubilees, 1856. The Book of Jubilees [a] is an ancient Jewish apocryphal text of 50 chapters (1341 verses), considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, as well as by Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). Jubilees is considered one of the pseudepigrapha by the Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant ...
This bible is one of the few remaining original copies in the world. A rare edition of the Bible recently named one of Tennessee’s first official state books is an integral part of a nationwide ...