Historian When assessing Luke as a historian, it is important to keep in mind that his work was written in an entirely different era to modern historians. Today’s historians work
To introduce this series of articles, I will begin by explaining its purpose and content. The goal is to assess Luke’s credibility as an author by analysing selected passages from
Several cities across the world share names with biblical characters. Naturally, this has led to these cities’ football clubs having a biblical connection as well. For example, the Brazilian City
In this day and age we take it for granted that we are able to read the Bible in our own language. Back in the day however, this activity was
A lecturer at the University of Bergen said: “Knowing the Bible is key to understanding the culture one is part of, and thus also to understanding oneself. Not knowing the
The word Bible comes via Latin from the Greek word biblia, which means “small books”. This is again derived from the word biblos, a word that describes the papyrus plant’s
The part of the Bible (the Old Testament) that is from the first century was written in Hebrew and some Aramaic. All text in the New Testament was written in
A regular Norwegian bible has about 1400 pages and consists of about 3 million letters. To read it “quietly” takes about 50 hours, while it takes about 80 hours to
A regular Norwegian bible has about 1400 pages, depending on the font size and book format. It has 1189 chapters, 31.173 verses, approximately 740.000 words and about 3 million letters.
A regular Norwegian Bible consists of 66 books. Where 39 is in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. Catholic Bibles consist of 73 books, as they also
