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In the 17th and 18th centuries, it became common to capitalize all nouns, as is still done in some other Germanic languages, including German. In languages that capitalize all nouns, reverential capitalization of the first two letters or the whole word can sometimes be seen. The following is an example in Danish, which capitalized nouns until 1948.
In a biblical context, God is capitalized only when it refers to the Judeo-Christian deity ... So, (1) "God" is capitalized when used as a title. No mention of any particular religion. (2) "God" is not capitalized when not used as a title. No mention of any particular religion. (3) In biblical contexts, "God" is only capitalized as a title for ...
Generally, "the" is not capitalized before such names (the Unitarians, not The Unitarians). Religious texts are capitalized, but often not italicized (the Bhagavad Gita, the Quran, the Talmud, the Granth Sahib, the Bible). Do not capitalize "the" when using it in this way.
The names of the books of the Bible can be abbreviated. Most Bibles give preferred abbreviation guides in their tables of contents, or at the front of the book. [ 3 ] Abbreviations may be used when the citation is a reference that follows a block quotation of text.
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
I agree, when referring to a specific holy book, it is capitalized. both Biblical and biblical are grammatically correct, I don't know why the manual of style choose just one for the Bible, but made Koranic, normally capitalized, and left leeway for other texts. Rds865 19:25, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Besides, even names of purely fictional characters are properly capitalized, which makes his complaint rather odd.) Craig zimmerman ( talk ) 17:55, 26 November 2007 (UTC) "What "many people would [do]" (according to the above, "capitalizing the word regardless of whether they were using the common or proper noun meaning") has no bearing on the ...
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with J in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.