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  1. The Alexandrian rites are a collection of ritual families and uses of Christian liturgy employed by three Oriental Orthodox churches (the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ), and by three Eastern Catholic Churches (the Coptic Catholic Church, the Eritrean ...

  2. Smith's Bible Dictionary. Alexandrians. the Jewish colonists of Alexandria, who were admitted to the privileges of citizenship and had a synagogue at Jerusalem. ( Acts 6:9) International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ALEXANDRIANS. al-eg-zan'-dri-ans (Alexandreis): Jews of Alexandria, who had, with the Libertines and Cyrenians, a synagogue in ...

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  4. Alexandria's Influence on the Bible: (1) In Daniel 11 the Ptolomies of Alexandria and their wives are made a theme of prophecy. Apollos, the "orator," was born in Alexandria ( Acts 18:24 ). Luke twice speaks of himself and Paul sailing in "a ship of Alexandria" ( Acts 27:6; Acts 28:11 ). Stephen `disputed' in Jerusalem in the synagogue of the ...

  5. Griesbach added the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, as well as additional Alexandrian church fathers, to the Alexandrian text type. The work required a keen understanding of language and an eye for detail; texts were grouped with others based on the presence (or absence) of certain words or phrases, and in a couple of cases, entire passages ...

  6. A Bible concordance is an alphabetical listings of words and phrases found in the Holy Bible and shows where the terms occur throughout all books of Scripture. With cross-references for verses, concordances make it easy to understand the meaning of terms and the context in which those words are used. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance is the ...

  7. Jul 24, 2009 · The Unreliability of the Alexandrian Manuscripts Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are among the worst manuscripts known. Luke Mounsey. July 24, 2009. Manuscript Evidence. Print. Bible scholarship of the past 150 years has placed much attention on a very small number of manuscripts. While there are over 5000 known New Testament manuscripts, attention ...

  8. Dec 1, 1998 · This commentary by outstanding Roman Catholic scholars utilizes the principles of modern biblical criticism to interpret the word of God. Each book of the Bible is treated in somewhat the same manner: a bibliography, an introduction which deals with the date of composition, the structure of the book, and a general interpretation followed by a verse-by-verse explanation or commentary.