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The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her ...
t. e. The Acts of Paul and Thecla ( Latin: Acta Pauli et Theclae) is an apocryphal text describing Paul the Apostle 's influence on a young virgin named Thecla. It is one of the writings of the New Testament apocrypha. Edgar J. Goodspeed called it a "religious romance" [ 1]
In Christian Bibles the Book of Ruth, which belongs in the final section of the Hebrew Bible, is inserted between Judges and Samuel. According to Jewish tradition dating from at least the 2nd century CE, the Book of Joshua was by Joshua , the Book of Judges and the Books of Samuel were by the prophet Samuel (with some passages by the prophets ...
Rhoda (biblical figure) Peter Returns by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1695. Rhoda is in the upper left of the woodcut. Rhoda ( Biblical Greek: Ῥόδη, romanized: Rhodē) is a woman mentioned once in the New Testament. She appears only in Acts 12:12–15. Rhoda was the first person to hear Peter after God freed him from prison, but no one ...
Joanna, wife of Chuza. Joanna ( Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννα, romanized: Iōanna, also Greek: Ἰωάνα ), the wife of Chuza ( γυνὴ Χουζᾶ ), [ 2] is a woman mentioned in the gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples in their travels. She is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke as ...
A re'em, also reëm ( Hebrew: רְאֵם, romanized : rəʾēm ), is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible. [ note 1] It has been translated as "unicorn" in the Latin Vulgate, King James Version, and in some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew ), [citation needed] "wild ox ...
5. Acts 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the start of the second missionary journey of Paul, together with Silas and Timothy. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the ...