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v. t. e. The Julia Evelina Smith Parker Translation is considered the first complete translation of the Bible into English by a woman. [1] As of 2017, she is still the only woman to have translated the entire Bible unaided. [2] The Bible was titled The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original ...
Adam. Adam[ c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [ 4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam ). [ 5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
God in Christianity is represented by the Trinity of three hypostases or "persons" described as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. While "Father" and "Son" implicitly invoke masculine sex, the gender of the Holy Spirit from earliest times was also represented as including feminine aspects (partly due to grammatical gender, especially in the Syriac ...
Gender in Bible translation. Gender in Bible translation concerns various issues, such as the gender of God and generic antecedents in reference to people. Bruce Metzger states that the English language is so biased towards the male gender that it restricts and obscures the meaning of the original language, which was more gender-inclusive than ...
Julia Evelina Smith (27 May 1792 – 6 March 1886) was an American women's suffrage activist who was the first woman to translate the Bible from its original languages into English. She was also the author of the book Abby Smith and Her Cows, which told the story of her and her sister Abby Hadassah Smith 's tax resistance struggle in the ...
The traditional reading has been questioned recently by feminist theologians who suggest it should instead be rendered as "side", supporting the idea that woman is man's equal and not his subordinate. [17] Such a reading shares elements in common with Aristophanes' story of the origin of love and the separation of the sexes in Plato's Symposium ...
Etymology. The first instance of the English word "homosexuals" used in a biblical translation was in the RSV New Testament published from 1946 until 1970, [ 6] which simultaneously removed most "fornication" admonitions found in the prior ASV (1901) and KJV (1611) Bibles. [ 7] Historically, the Vulgate contains the Latin stem "fornicat" within ...
Amalek ( / ˈæməlɛk /; [ 1] Biblical Hebrew: עֲמָלֵק, romanized: ʿĂmālēq) is described in the Hebrew Bible as the enemy nation of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau, or anyone who lived in their territories in Canaan, [ 2][ 3][ 4] or North African descendants of Ham ...