biblical texts
Sacred religious documents
Biblical texts are writings from or related to the Bible—the Hebrew scriptures, New Testament, or both.
The term encompasses the canonical books themselves and related documents like the Dead Sea Scrolls or apocryphal gospels.
Scholars study biblical texts for religious meaning, historical context, and literary analysis: The course examined biblical texts from multiple faith traditions.
- sacred scriptureRevered religious text
- ancient manuscriptsVery old handwritten documents
- historical narrativeAccount of past events
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- SeptuagintGreek translation of Hebrew scriptures
promised land · hermeneutics · illuminations · King James Version · Dead Sea Scrolls · New Testament · paleography · redaction criticism · codices · chapter and verse · Torah · burning bush · ten commandments · promised land · vellum · Babylonian exile · psalms · verses
- Second Temple JudaismSecond Temple, Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Dead Sea Scrolls
- ReformationMartin Luther, John Calvin, 95 Theses, Protestant Reformation, Luther
- Church SlavonicOld Church Slavonic, Glagolitic script, Cyril and Methodius, Great Moravia
- Coptic ChristianityCopts, Saint Mark
- Ethiopian texts
- Jewish educationyeshiva, Hebrew, Hebrew school, day school, day schools
biblical textsscientific literature
Formal research documentation
secular humanism · academic scholarship · legal codes · technical manuals
biblical textsNorse sagas
Medieval Icelandic prose narratives
biblical textscontemporary fiction
Recently written realistic novels
Bible, biblical, bibliophile, bibliography, bibliomania, biblically