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Apocrypha

Is That Biblical Dog an Angel?

Michael Gilmour | Posted 08.20.2012 | Religion
Read More: Biblical Interpretation, Humor, Bible, Prayer, Septuagint, Angels, Hebrews, Apocrypha, Dogs, Lxx, Tobit, Religion News
Michael Gilmour

The charming and occasionally humorous Book of Tobit appears in the Greek Septuagint and has a place in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox canonical traditions. At the heart of the story is a journey.

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What Does The Book Of Revelation Really Mean?

Greg Carey | Posted 03.02.2012 | Religion
Read More: Biblical Prophecy, End Times, Apocalypse, Apocrypha, Bible, Apocalyptic, Biblical-Apocrypha, Mayan Calendar, Scripture Commentary, Christian End Times, Book of Revelation, Book of Daniel, Christianity, 2012 Apocalypse, Religion News
Greg Carey

No academic interpreter of Revelation understands the book as a roadmap for the future. Instead, Revelation originally spoke to the conditions of its own time and place.

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What Didn't Make It Into The Bible?

Bart D. Ehrman | Posted 09.20.2011 | Religion
Read More: Scripture Commentary, Christianity, Gospel of James, Apocrypha, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Jesus, Biblical Apocrypha, Early Christian Writings, Gnostic Gospels, Mary Magdalene, History of the Bible, Religion News
Bart D. Ehrman

For a complete picture of what the earliest Christians "knew" about Jesus, the books of the New Testament are not enough. One also needs to read the books that did not make it into Scripture.

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Jason Linkins

Newt's Park51 Stance Puts Him 'To The Right' Of Il Duce

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, park51, Apocrypha, Benito Mussolini, Newt Gingrich, park51-Ground-Zero, Eat the Press, Ben Smith, Media News

Ben Smith's been digging into whether Newt Gingrich's call -- "There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches...

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