"billion Bibles and New Testaments by Gideon members spanned 93 years (1908 to 2001). The second billion was attained in less than 14 years (2002 to 2015). The headquarters of Gideons International is in Nashville, Tennessee. The organization began in fall 1898, when two traveling salesmen, John H. Nicholson of Janesville, Wisconsin, and Samuel E. Hill of Beloit, Wisconsin, met in a hotel room they shared at the Central House Hotel in Boscobel, Wisconsin, where they discussed the formation of an association. In May 1899, the two met again in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where they decided the goal of their"
"Gideon Gideon () or Gedeon, also named Jerubbaal, and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 'valiant' men. The nineteenth-century Strong's Concordance derives the name ""Jerubbaal"" from ""Baal will contend"", in"
"Giloh is mentioned in the Book of Joshua (Joshua 15:51) and the Book of Samuel (II Sam 15:12). Some scholars believe that biblical Giloh was located in the central Hebron Hills, whereas the name of the modern settlement was chosen because of its proximity to Beit Jala, possibly a corruption of Giloh. During the construction of Gilo, archaeologists discovered a fortress and agricultural implements from the period of the First Temple period above the shopping center on Rehov Haganenet. Between Givat Canada and Gilo Park, they unearthed the remains of a farm and graves from the Second Temple period. Roman"
"Gibeah Gibeah (; ""Giv'a"") is a place name appearing in several books of the Hebrew Bible. It is generally identified with Tell el-Fūl (Arabic for ""mound of beans""), a hill in the northern reaches of modern Jerusalem, on the outskirts of the Pisgat Ze'ev and Shuafat neighborhoods. However, this identification was challenged by Israel Finkelstein in 2011. Gibeah may be a variation of the Hebrew word meaning ""hill"". Other names include Gibeah of God (; see ), Gibeah of Benjamin () for it is in the territory of the Tribe of Benjamin (), and Gibeah of Saul (), where biblical"
"Bijbels Museum The Bijbels Museum (""Biblical Museum"") is a museum on the Herengracht in Amsterdam housing a collection of Bibles and other religious objects from the Judeo-Christian tradition, including the oldest Bible printed in the Netherlands (the 1477 ""Delftse Bijbel"",), a first edition of the 1637 Dutch Authorised Version, and a facsimile copy of a Dead Sea scroll from Qumran containing the Book of Isaiah. The museum also houses archaeological discoveries, artifacts from ancient Egypt collected by Leendert Schouten in the 19th century: oil lamps, clay tablets, earthenware, shards of pottery and coins. They give an impression of the religious"
"Abram in that very place"". The site of Moreh, a hill by which Gideon camped before he attacked the Midianites, is sometimes identified with modern Nabi Dahi, south of Mount Tabor, but this has not been confirmed on the ground. Moreh Moreh is the name of a location or a person mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Giv'at ha-More (Hebrew: גבעת המורה; English also as Giv'at ha-Moreh, Givat HaMoreh etc.; in the Septuagint the hill's Hebrew name was transliterated into 3rd Century BCE Greek as Γαβααθ Αμωρα, ""Gabaath Amora"") is a mountain range in northern Israel, located on the"
"""Felege Ghion"" in Geez. Ghion is believed to be the Biblical name of the Abay River that is mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the four rivers which flow out of Eden and encompasses the land of Ethiopia. Considering its location within the bend of the Abay River, the province of Gojjam is also referred to, especially by the church community, as Ghion or Felege Ghion. The first church in Gojjam was built at Mertule Mariam, which became the second church in Ethiopia, next to Axum Tsion, and hence the second most important. Tradition relates that Christianity"
"Gennady's Bible () is now housed in the State History Museum on Red Square in Moscow. During the 16th century a greater interest arose in the Bible in South and West Russia, owing to the controversies between adherents of the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholics and Greek-Catholics. In the second half of the 16th century the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, and parts of the Psalter were often printed at Lviv and Vilnius, though the oldest printed edition of the Acts and Epistles was issued at Moscow in 1564. In 1581 Ivan Fyodorov published the first printed edition of the"
"the Thebaid. Sheneset-Chenoboskion Chenoboskion (Greek ""geese pasture""), also called Chenoboscium or Sheneset ( ""Šénesēt""), is the name of an early center of Christianity in the Thebaid, Roman Egypt, a site frequented by Desert Fathers from the 3rd century and the site of a monastery from the 4th. It is close to the modern village of al-Qasr, just east of the larger town of Nag Hammadi, Qena Governorate. The Nag Hammadi library, a collection of 2nd-century Gnostic manuscripts discovered in 1945, was found in the Nile cliffs to the north-west. At Chenoboskion, St Pachomius was converted to Christianity in the 4th"
"the Bible where the name Aenon is found. The name Aenon is commonly used amongst Baptist organizations and churches. Both names, ""Aenon"" and ""Salim"", are not unique, and the Gospel text offers only two additional hints about where Aenon might be located: the most direct information is that ""there was plenty of water there"" (), and the second is that it was west of the River Jordan because at Aenon John's disciples talk of the site where John first encountered Jesus as being ""on the other side of the Jordan"" () which is taken to mean east of the river."
"Bible is the Codex Amiatinus, produced in eighth century England at the double monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. By the end of late antiquity the Bible was therefore available and used in all the major written languages then spoken by Christians. Usage of the Vetus Latina as the backbone of the church and liturgy continued well into the Twelfth Century. Perhaps the most complete, and certainly the largest surviving example is Codex Gigas, which can be seen in its entirety online. Housed in the National Library of Sweden, the massive Bible opens with the Five Books of Moses and ends with Third"
"a somewhat fanciful tale of workmen accidentally discovering the tomb of David on Mount Zion. Epiphanius' 4th-century account in his ""Weights and Measures"" is one of the first to associate the location with the original meeting place of the Christian faith, writing that there stood ""the church of God, which was small, where the disciples, when they had returned after the Savior had ascended from the Mount of Olives, went to the upper room"". Archaeologists, doubting the Mount Zion location and favouring the biblical account, have since the early 20th century sought the actual tomb in the City of David"
"area. In 1913, Raymond Weill found eight elaborate tombs at the south of the City of David, which archaeologists have subsequently interpreted as strong candidates for the burial locations of the former kings of the city; Hershel Shanks, for example, argues that the most ornate of these (officially labelled ""T1"") is precisely where one would expect to find the burial site mentioned in the Bible. In the mid-nineteenth century, engineer and amateur archaeologist Ermete Pierotti reported discovering a cavern beneath the grounds of the Byzantine and Crusader churches on Mount Zion which he suspected extended to beneath the Tomb of"
"they are named. They have original details such as the ceiling paintings by Jacob de Wit, which were restored in 1999-2000. Bijbels Museum The Bijbels Museum (""Biblical Museum"") is a museum on the Herengracht in Amsterdam housing a collection of Bibles and other religious objects from the Judeo-Christian tradition, including the oldest Bible printed in the Netherlands (the 1477 ""Delftse Bijbel"",), a first edition of the 1637 Dutch Authorised Version, and a facsimile copy of a Dead Sea scroll from Qumran containing the Book of Isaiah. The museum also houses archaeological discoveries, artifacts from ancient Egypt collected by Leendert Schouten"
"Beth-barah, where Gideon lay in wait for the Midianites (). In the plain of the Jordan, between Succoth and Zarthan, is the clay ground where Solomon had his brass-foundries (1 Kings ). In the Jordan valley is portrayed as a woodland region. Biblical commentator Albert Barnes suggested that ""trees were rare in most parts of Palestine, but plentiful in the Jordan Valley"". In biblical history, the Jordan appears as the scene of several miracles, the first taking place when the Jordan, near Jericho, was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua (). Later the two tribes and the half tribe that"
"book was found in an Ethiopic (Ge'ez) language translation there, and Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc bought a book that was claimed to be identical to the one quoted by the Epistle of Jude and the Church Fathers. Hiob Ludolf, the great Ethiopic scholar of the 17th and 18th centuries, soon claimed it to be a forgery produced by Abba Bahaila Michael. Better success was achieved by the famous Scottish traveller James Bruce, who, in 1773, returned to Europe from six years in Abyssinia with three copies of a Ge'ez version. One is preserved in the Bodleian Library, another was presented"
"by Emperor Hadrian in 135. Christian tradition holds that the place of the Last Supper is the Cenacle, on the second floor of a building on Mount Zion where David's Tomb is reportedly on the first floor. Biblical archaeologist Bargil Pixner claims to have found three walls of the original structure still extant today. The place of Jesus' anguished prayer and betrayal, Gethsemane, is probably somewhere near the Church of All Nations on the Mount of Olives. Jesus' trial before Pontius Pilate may have taken place at the Antonia Fortress, to the north of the Temple area. Popularly, the exterior"
"near Beni Masah, Egypt. It appeared to be a 3rd- or 4th-century-AD copy of a 2nd-century original, relating a series of conversations in which Jesus and Judas interact and discuss the nature of the universe from a Gnostic viewpoint. The discovery was given dramatic international exposure in April 2006 when the US ""National Geographic"" magazine published a feature article entitled ""The Gospel of Judas"" with images of the fragile codex and analytical commentary by relevant experts and interested observers (but not a comprehensive translation). The article's introduction stated: ""An ancient text lost for 1,700 years says Christ's betrayer was his"
"burned scroll, and thus reconstructed the text of the document. En-Gedi Scroll The En-Gedi Scroll is an ancient and fragile Hebrew parchment found in 1970 at Ein Gedi, Israel. It has been carbon-dated to the third or fourth century CE. It contains a portion of the biblical Book of Leviticus. It is significant as one of the oldest portions of the Bible in existence. The deciphered text fragment is identical to what was to become during the Middle Ages the standard text of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Masoretic text, which it precedes by several centuries, and constitutes the"
"Hebrew script, which is closely related. The stone was discovered intact by Frederick Augustus Klein, an Anglican missionary, at the site of ancient Dibon (now Dhiban, Jordan), in August 1868. Klein was led to it by a local Bedouin, although neither of them could read the text. At that time, amateur explorers and archaeologists were scouring the Levant for evidence proving the Bible's historicity. News of the finding set off a race between France, Britain and Germany to acquire the piece. A ""squeeze"" (a papier-mâché impression) had been obtained by a local Arab on behalf of Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, an"
"Shimon Gibson Shimon Gibson is a British-born archaeologist living in Israel. Gibson obtained a PhD in landscape archaeology in the southern Levant from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is currently a Senior Associate Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and an adjunct Professor of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Shimon Gibson was the lead archeologist excavating the wilderness cave of John the Baptist in 2000 and later wrote ""The Cave of John the Baptist"". He leads the team that found a 10-line ritual cup at Mount Zion. He is"
"Well of Harod The Well of Harod or Spring of Harod (, Ein Harod) is a spring near the two kibbutzim called Ein Harod in the Jezreel Valley in Israel. In Arabic it is called ʿAyn Jalut () meaning the Spring of Goliath. It is mentioned in the Book of Judges, chapter 7, where it is said that Gideon dismissed 22,000 potential warriors who were ""fearful and afraid"" and then chose 300 men to fight with him according to how they drank water from the Well of Harod. Anglican bishop Charles Ellicott and Presbyterian theologian Albert Barnes both suggest that"
"between Aaron and Moses (Exodus 4:27) likely took place on the road between Midian and Egypt, but closer to Egypt; d) the Suder valley fits the wilderness described in the Bible; e) Gabal Sin Bishar means ""the reporting of the law"" or ""the laws of man,"" and this is the only mountain where the name ""Sinai"" has been preserved in the name ""sin;"" f) Dr. Har-El cites Josephus' writings, who had access to the Jewish Temple's sacred books that he was given by Roman General Titus after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Josephus writes that the mountain was"
"Sheneset-Chenoboskion Chenoboskion (Greek ""geese pasture""), also called Chenoboscium or Sheneset ( ""Šénesēt""), is the name of an early center of Christianity in the Thebaid, Roman Egypt, a site frequented by Desert Fathers from the 3rd century and the site of a monastery from the 4th. It is close to the modern village of al-Qasr, just east of the larger town of Nag Hammadi, Qena Governorate. The Nag Hammadi library, a collection of 2nd-century Gnostic manuscripts discovered in 1945, was found in the Nile cliffs to the north-west. At Chenoboskion, St Pachomius was converted to Christianity in the 4th century. Pachomius"
"En-Gedi Scroll The En-Gedi Scroll is an ancient and fragile Hebrew parchment found in 1970 at Ein Gedi, Israel. It has been carbon-dated to the third or fourth century CE. It contains a portion of the biblical Book of Leviticus. It is significant as one of the oldest portions of the Bible in existence. The deciphered text fragment is identical to what was to become during the Middle Ages the standard text of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Masoretic text, which it precedes by several centuries, and constitutes the earliest evidence of this authoritative text version. The En-Gedi Scroll"
"already supported by the 19th-century Smith's Bible Dictionary and the 1915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia and is still favoured by some. The 6th-century Madaba Map shows the location of Ænon right across the Jordan from Bethabara, near Jericho. Bethabara is in some, but not all, versions of the Gospel of John the place where John was baptising during his encounter with Jesus. The map and archaeological findings at the site indicate that at least during part of the Byzantine period, this was the site venerated as Aenon. The two relevant map inscriptions read With the Dead Sea shown on the"
"of large stones were also uncovered, possibly a fortified defense tower. The biblical town of Giloh is mentioned in the Book of Joshua (Joshua 15:51) and the Book of Samuel (II Sam 15:12). Some scholars believe that biblical Giloh was located in the central Hebron Hills, whereas the name of the modern settlement was chosen because of its proximity to Beit Jala, possibly a corruption of Giloh. During the construction of the modern suburb of Gilo, archaeologists discovered a fortress and agricultural implements from the period of the First Temple period above the shopping center on Rehov Haganenet. Between Givat"
"Gibeon (ancient city) Gibeon (, Standard Hebrew ""Giv‘ōn"", Tiberian Hebrew ""Giḇʻôn"") was a Canaanite city north of Jerusalem. According to and , the pre-conquest inhabitants of Gibeon, the Gibeonites, were Hivites; according to they were Amorites. The remains of Gibeon are located on the south edge of the Palestinian village of Al Jib. The earliest known mention of Gibeon in an extra-biblical source is in a list of cities on the wall of the Amum temple at Karnak, celebrating the invasion of Israel by Egyptian Pharaoh Shoshenq I (945-924 BCE). The 10th-century lexicographer David ben Abraham al-Fasi, identified al-Jib with"
"Aleppo Codex The Aleppo Codex ( Keter Aram Tzova or Crown of Aleppo) is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. The codex was written in the city of Tiberias, in what is currently northern Israel, in the 10th century C.E., and was endorsed for its accuracy by Maimonides. Together with the Leningrad Codex, it contains the Ben-Asher masoretic tradition, but the Aleppo Codex lacks most of the Torah section and many other parts. The Karaite Jewish community of Jerusalem purchased the codex about a hundred years after it was made. During the First Crusade, the synagogue was plundered"
"subsequently refurbished (""II""), and then later in disuse. The oldest level may reflect the Gibeah of . The excavations by Albright, checked by Lapp, would favor the view that it was Saul who built the first fortress, later repaired by him or David. the first fort (quadrangular) had at least one rectangular corner-tower at its southwest angle; it may have had others at the other corners, but no traces were detected."" Gibeah Gibeah (; ""Giv'a"") is a place name appearing in several books of the Hebrew Bible. It is generally identified with Tell el-Fūl (Arabic for ""mound of beans""), a"
"second body of law, the Book of Numbers begins with yet another set, and the Book of Deuteronomy another. Moses has traditionally been regarded as the author of those four books and the Book of Genesis, which together comprise the Torah, the first section of the Hebrew Bible. The modern scholarly consensus is that the figure of Moses is legendary, and not historical, although a ""Moses-like figure may have existed somewhere in the southern Transjordan in the mid-late 13th century B.C."" Certainly no Egyptian sources mention Moses or the events of Exodus–Deuteronomy, nor has any archaeological evidence been discovered in"
"and settle near Nicopolis ad Istrum in modern northern Bulgaria. There, Ulfilas devised the Gothic alphabet and presided over the translation of the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language, which was performed by a group of translators. Fragments of the Gothic Bible translation have survived, notably the ""Codex Argenteus"" held since 1648 in the University Library of Uppsala in Sweden. A parchment page of this Bible was found in 1971 in the Speyer Cathedral. According to 17th century scholar , Ulfilas created the Gothic alphabet based on the Getae's alphabet, with minor alterations. Carolus is quoting Bonaventura Vulcanius' book,"
"codices discovered in 1941 at a munitions dump near Toura, Egypt (south of Cairo). These include his commentaries on Zechariah, Genesis 1-17, part of Job and parts (of uncertain authenticity) on Ecclesiastes and Psalms 20-46. In these commentaries, Didymus discusses long quotations from the Bible, and refrains from speculation, which he considered sophistry. However, he interprets scriptures allegorically, seeing symbols everywhere. For example, he wrote that the mountains in Zachariah represented the two Testaments of the Bible. Didymus saw an individual's movement towards virtue as emerging from their interaction with scripture. Didymus probably wrote a treatise called ""On The Holy"