What is the shortest book in the Bible?

Obadiah is one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the final section of Nevi'im, the second main division of the Hebrew Bible. The text consists of a single chapter, divided into 21 verses, making it the shortest book in the Hebrew Bible. The book concerns the divine judgment of Edom and the restoration of Israel.

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Is 3 John the shortest book in the Bible?

Third John is the shortest book of the Bible by word count, though 2 John has fewer verses. 3 John has 15 verses in the critical SBL Greek New Testament text, or 14 in the Textus Receptus. It is the only New Testament book which does not contain the names "Jesus" or "Christ".

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What is the longest and the shortest book in the Bible?

By number of chapters and total number of verses, Psalms is by far the longest book. Jeremiah is the longest Bible book in terms of words. In terms of the shortest Bible book, five have only one chapter: Obadiah, Second John, Third John, Jude and Philemon.

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Which book of the Bible has the shortest chapters?

Psalm 117, the shortest chapter, is also the middle chapter of the Bible, being the 595th Chapter. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter of the Bible. Five books are a single chapter: Obadiah, Philemon, 2 & 3 John, Jude.

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What is the shortest book ever written?

Jesus Wept: "The Shortest, Short Story Ever Written and Published," Guinness World Records book… In a 2 worded sentence in a book in the New Testament portion of The Holy Bible, God Himself revealed both the Divinity and the Humanity of His only Son, Jesus Christ, with "Jesus wept."

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What are the Longest (and Shortest) Books of the Bible?

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What is shorter than a book?

A novella is a standalone piece of fiction that is shorter than a full-length novel but longer than a short story or novelette.

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Which book has the longest word?

In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust – 1.5 million words. French author Marcel Proust began writing In Search of Lost Time in 1909, completing the entire volume set in 1922.

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What are the 2 shortest chapters in the Bible?

Consisting of only two verses, Psalm 117 is the shortest psalm and also the shortest chapter in the whole Bible. It is joined with Psalm 118 in the manuscripts of the Hebraist scholars Benjamin Kennicott and Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi. "O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. "

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How many names did Jesus have?

Although the precise difference between a 'name' and a 'title' may be open to interpretation, 198 different names and titles of Jesus in the Bible are listed in Cruden's Concordance, first published in 1737, and continuously in print ever since.

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Which book of the Bible never mentions God?

The books of Esther and Song of Songs are the only books in the Hebrew Bible that do not mention God.

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Which Bible has all the books?

Unlike the King James Bible, which contains 66 books, the Ethiopic Bible comprises a total of 84 books and includes some writings that were rejected or lost by other Churches. This manuscript, however, only contains the four gospels and the first eight books of the Old Testament.

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How many brothers did Jesus have?

According to Mark 6:3 Jesus had four brothers (and two sisters): "Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?

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Which is the shortest book in the New Testament?

The Epistle of Jude is the sixty-fifth book in the Christian Bible, and the twenty-sixth in the New Testament. It is one of the shortest books in the Bible, at only 25 verses long.

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Who is the shortest gospel?

Relation to Mark

The triple tradition itself constitutes a complete gospel quite similar to the shortest gospel, Mark. Mark, unlike Matthew and Luke, adds little to the triple tradition.

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Who wrote 1 John?

Authorship. The epistle is traditionally held to have been composed by John the Evangelist, at Ephesus, when the writer was in advanced age. The epistle's content, language and conceptual style are very similar to the Gospel of John, 2 John, and 3 John.

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Who wrote the 3 letters of John?

Letters of John, abbreviation John, three New Testament writings, all composed sometime around 100 ce and traditionally attributed to St. John the Apostle, son of Zebedee and disciple of Jesus. The author of the first letter is not identified, but the writer of the second and third calls himself “presbyter” (elder).

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What language did Jesus speak?

Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.

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What is Jesus real last name?

Jesus is sometimes referred to as Jesus Christ, and some people assume that Christ is Jesus' last name. But Christ is actually a title, not a last name. So if Christ isn't a last name, what was Jesus' last name? The answer is Jesus didn't have a formal last name or surname like we do today.

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Who is the oldest man in the Bible?

He had the longest lifespan of all those given in the Bible, having died at the age of 969. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah.

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How many books in the Bible?

A number of biblical canons have since evolved. Christian biblical canons range from the 73 books of the Catholic Church canon, and the 66-book canon of most Protestant denominations, to the 81 books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canon, among others.

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Which is the middle verse in the Bible?

The middle book in the New Testament is 2nd Thessalonians. The middle chapters are Romans XIII and XIV. The middle verse is in Acts XVIII 17th verse.

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What is the 1 longest word in English?

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters), a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

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What book is 300000 words long?

A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin – 300,000 words (source) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin – 298,000 words (source) Ulysses by James Joyce – 262,869 words (source) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling – 257,045 words (source)

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