biblicism
English edit
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Etymology edit
Compare French biblicisme. Equivalent to biblical + -ism.
Noun edit
biblicism (usually uncountable, plural biblicisms)
- Learning or literature relating to the Bible.
- A term derived from the Bible
- 1995, Helmut Koester, John H Morison Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Professor of Ecclisiastical History Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 113:
- Such biblicisms — ultimately Hebraisms, since they derive from the Hebrew Bible — can still be found in later products of ancient Christian literature, since the Greek Bible of Hellenistic Judaism remained the Bible of the Christians […]
Related terms edit
Translations edit
study of the bible
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References edit
- “biblicism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.