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Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Judith Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Judith

Fiction History Religion War
Power Warfare Religion Courage Faith Deception Justice Heroism Wisdom Strategy Prayer Old Testament God Seduction Women Judith Holofernes Israelites Assyrians Bethulia Siege Beheading Victory Divine Intervention Deuterocanon

Judith is the 18th book of the Bible and one of the historical books in the Old Testament. The overall theme is the power of prayer. The Israelites are besieged by the forces of Holofernes and pray to God to overcome the forces. Judith seduces Holofe...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Tobias Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Tobias

Fiction Mythology Religion
Family Marriage Love Redemption Sacrifice Duty Exile Hope Prayer Old Testament God Obedience Jewish Healing Miracles Israel Prophecy Faithfulness Mercy Angel Almsgiving Chastity Babylonian Exile Demon

Tobias is the 17th book of the Bible and one of the historical books in the Old Testament. In the text, Raphael, after revealing his angelic nature, commanded both father and son to tell all the wonders that God had done to them and write it in a boo...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias) Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias)

Fiction Mythology Religion
Marriage Faith Justice Prayer Charity Healing Deuterocanon Israel Nineveh Good Deeds Angel Demon Apocrypha Deportation Assyria Tobit Tobias Raphael Blindness Asmodeus Douay-Rheims Version DRV

The book tells the alleged story of a righteous Israelite of the Tribe of Naphtali named Tobit living in Nineveh after the deportation of the northern tribes of Israel to Assyria in 721 BC under Sargon II. (Summary by Wikipedia, modified by Sam Stins...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Judith Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Judith

Fiction History Mythology Religion
Widow Courage Sacrifice Faith Religious Betrayal Historical Judith Holofernes Israelites Assyrians Deuterocanon Apocrypha Biblical Heroine General Decapitation

The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for being unwilling to engage their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal if reluctant maid Abra to the camp of the enemy general, Holoferne...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom

Philosophy Religion Reference work
Religion Wisdom Ethics Logic Jewish Philosophy Deuterocanon Hebrew Stoicism Apocrypha Canonical Douay-Rheims Hellenistic Septuagint Platonism Alexandria Sorites Naḥmanides St. Melito

Wisdom is one of the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is a wisdom book, bearing similarity to the canonical works. Scholars believe that the book represents the most classical Greek language found in the Septuagint, having been writ...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees

History Non-Fiction Religion
History Persecution Rebellion Religious Freedom Jewish Greek Temple Jerusalem Ancient History Maccabees Antiochus Seleucid Judea Revolt Mattathias Judas Maccabeus Jonathan Maccabeus Simon Maccabeus Hyrcanus Biblical History

1 Maccabees is an apocryphal/deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probably about 100 BC. It is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons. Protestants, Jews, and some other...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Additions to Esther Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Additions to Esther

History Religion Reference work
History Religious Prayer Translation Bible God Jewish Latin Vulgate Christian Esther Greek Deuterocanon Hebrew Apocrypha Canon Septuagint Textual Criticism

An additional six chapters appear interspersed in Esther in the Septuagint, the Greek translation, which then was noted by Jerome in compiling the Latin Vulgate; additionally, the Greek text contains many small changes in the meaning of the main text...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Baruch Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Baruch

History Non-Fiction Religion Reference work
Theology Resistance Hope Old Testament Biblical Studies Religious Text Deuterocanon Prophecy Apocrypha Idolatry Jeremiah Maccabees Jewish Exile Baruch God's Mercy Exhortation

The Book of Baruch consists of exhortation to Jews in exile to accept exile, hope for the mercy of God, and resist the temptation to worship idols of the nations. The Book of Baruch, occasionally referred to as 1 Baruch, is called a deuterocanonical...

Bible (DRV) New Testament Cover image

Bible (DRV) New Testament

The Douay Rheims New Testament, published in 1582, is a translation of St Jerome's Latin Vulgate which dates from the fourth century. It influenced production of the King James version of the Bible to come some years afterward, while being the only R...

Psalms: Three Classic English Translations Cover image

Psalms: Three Classic English Translations

The Psalms, traditionally ascribed to David the King, are regarded in the Christian tradition as the voice of Christ speaking through His ancestor David. They are 150 laments, hymns, and prayers whose origins span 8 centuries before Christ and contin...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias) (Version 2) Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit (Tobias) (Version 2)

This book tells the story of Tobit (Tobias), an Israelite, living in Nineveh after the northern tribes of Israel had been deported to Assyria in 721 B.C. Tobit remains loyal to the worship of God at the temple in Jerusalem, and he is diligent in atte...

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) Cover image

Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)

The Book of Ecclesiasticus is preceded by a prologue which professes to be the work of the Greek translator of the original Hebrew and the genuineness of which is undoubted. In this preface to his translation, the writer describes how he was deeply i...

Bible (DRA), Complete 1899 American Edition Cover image

Bible (DRA), Complete 1899 American Edition

The Douay–Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the Catholic seminary English College, Douai, France. It is the foundation on which nearly all English Catholic versions are still based. I...