Resurrection: Facts

Facts on topics related to Resurrection

16th-century Genevan reformer John Calvin held Bible studies in the Calvin Auditory?
Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971?
Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16?
Arumuga Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, also helped translate the Bible into Tamil?
Charles B. Thompson, who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa?
Johann Phillip Fabricius, a German Christian missionary, completed the first translation of the Bible to Tamil?
John Baldwin named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip?
Jose C. Abriol was the first person to translate the Catholic Bible into Tagalog?
Kjell Magne Yri, a linguist at the University of Oslo, began his career as a Bible translator and priest in Ethiopia?
Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible, unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society?

15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms (pictured) to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
Bruce Barton, in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows, portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16?
Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?
a sculpture of Jesus near Tiškevičiai Palace (pictured) in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
according to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus was buried in one of the rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel (pictured)?
actor Greg Kinnear (pictured) fills in for Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Parks and Recreation episode, "The Camel"?
although the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus (pictured) is sitting at the right hand of God the Father, the New Testament also depicts him as standing and walking?
devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church, Mumbai, as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008?
in Revelation, Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand, which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?

the Liberation of Saint Peter (pictured) has been described as a recapitulation of the resurrection of Jesus?
the concept of weak dematerialization suggests the Resurrection of Jesus?

Codex Vaticanus 2061, a double palimpsest, contains some parts of the New Testament, homilies of several authors, and Strabon's Geographica?
Lectionary 226 of the New Testament, in some parts is a palimpsest, contains lessons from the Old Testament?
Lectionary 232, a manuscript of the New Testament, was variously dated in the past?
Minuscule 714, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also a fragment of Sentences of Peter Lombard?
Minuscule 715, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also extracts of Eulogius of Alexandria and of Hesychius?
Papyrus 110, a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament, may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
Papyrus 45 may have been one of the earliest manuscripts to collect more than one New Testament genre into a single codex?
Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University, and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy?
Vangjel Meksi was the first to translate the New Testament into the Albanian language?
Professor Ernst von Dobschütz (pictured) expanded the list of New Testament manuscripts?

Epiphanius's most important work, the Panarion, is ironically the only surviving source of information on several early Christian sects that he sought to eliminate with his writing?
the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (pictured) in Sofia, Bulgaria is a reorganized Ottoman mosque, built on the site of an Early Christian temple?

Dan Brown's depictions of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in his most famous novel have generated numerous criticisms of The Da Vinci Code among critics who feel that much of what he wrote is factually inaccurate?
television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs?
Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity?
Beatus of Lungern, a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland, is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon?
Charles Grant of the British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India?
jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity?
Ruatara, chief of the Ngā Puhi, hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814?
Saint Stephen of Perm invented the Permian alphabet for the Komi people in order to facilitate their education and eventual conversion to Christianity?
St. Assam's Church in Raheny, Dublin, has been the site of Christian worship since 1189?
Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity?