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Bible vs Prooftext - What's the difference?

bible | prooftext |

As nouns the difference between bible and prooftext

is that bible is a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts while prooftext is the practice of using decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.

As a proper noun bible

is the main religious text in christianity or bible can be .

bible

English

(wikipedia bible)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible).
  • * 1995 , Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
    • Computer Lib was written as a popular primer, but its most profound effect was on computer programmers, who needed little persuasion about the value of computers. Its tone – energetic, optimistic, inexhaustible, confused – matched theirs exactly. Having set out to appeal to the general public, Nelson managed to publish an insider's bible and highly intimate guide to hacker culture.
  • (nautical) A holystone.
  • Collection of sacred writing of the Christian religion

    • Related terms

    * biblical ----

    prooftext

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia prooftext) (prooftexts)
  • The practice of using decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.

    • References

    * Prooftext, Prooftexting, in ''Definition of Christian Terms