History Characters / TheBible

* SacrificialLamb: He only appears for a few lines of text, and is the first murder victim in all of creation.
** Ironically, this event was preceded by Abel himself sacrificing a sheep of his to please God. KarmicDeath, anyone?

** [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]

* CelibateHeroine: Played straight at the time of Jesus' birth - there's a reason she got her title. Possibly averted afterward, depending on whether you translate references to Jesus' "adelphoi" as "kinsmen" or "brothers and sisters".

* AffluentAscetic: There are implications that Jesus, for His constant travels and preaching, is not poor, or at least is always secure in funding. He is noted to wear purple, a color associated with royalty and accordingly expensive for the time, and His robe is noted to be seamless - which is expensive today, let alone 2 thousand years ago. And Judas is able to [[StealingFromTheTill skim off the top,]] likely because there is enough fund in the coffer to cover his theft (though they know about it).

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: One interpretation. Before being made to crawl upon his belly he must have had legs. What would you call a walking, talking serpent with (at least) human level intelligence?

* CloudCuckooLander: When asked if an adulterer should be stoned, Jesus wrote or drew something in the dirt with his finger instead of answering, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. [[ObfuscatingStupidity A lot of the time, these moments ''do'' help him make his point.]]

* AngelUnaware: Is rewarded for entertaining three of these...with a long-awaited son in his old age

* CherryTapping: 1,000 kill count...with a jawbone of an donkey.

* BeautyIsBad: Could very well be the poster child for this trope. She is extremely beautiful...and has the people of Israel killed if they refused to worship the Phoenician god Ba'al. In the process, she turns many Israelites away from God.

%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Sure, He will die for your sins, but if you ever happen to push His BerserkButton, may God help you...actually, He wouldn't.

* EldritchAbomination: A benevolent example (though many anti-religious people would disagree.), being a incomprehensible being that at one point defines Himself by the extent to which He is unlike humans.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: It's Abednego, but everyone says Abendego.

* TimeSkip: Hercrowning was delayed by 4 years possibly because Xerxes was [[Film/ThreeHundred fighting those pesky Greeks]].

[[WMG:[[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]]]]

%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* OneSteveLimit
%%* TreacherousAdvisor: His sister, Salome.

* SwissMessenger: Picture the most beautiful person of the preferred gender you know of. Thanks to them, you're not hanging out naked with him or her in the Garden.

%%* MethuselahSyndrome

* SacrificalLamb: He only appears for a few lines of text, and is the first murder victim in all of creation.

%%* AdamAndEvePlot

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[{{Jerkass}} Them eating the forbidden fruit led to centuries' worth of sin and sorrow. Inverted, because they were not really heroes.]]
* SadlyMythtaken: The Bible does not call the fruit an apple. The portrayal of said fruit as an apple is a StealthPun on the Latin word ''malus''.

%%* BiblicalBadGuy

* DisproportionateRetribution: Sure you may have gotten shafted in the contest, but was murder really the best way to resolve the issue?

* KilledOffForReal: The first murder victim in all of creation.
* YoungestChildWins: Slightly subverted since he dies, and Adam and Eve have another son after his death.

* ThereCanOnlyBeOne:
** The "one and true deity" [[note]]Which is pretty debated in meaning itself[[/note]], but given how much He is angered at the worship of other gods as well as some weird [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment one time passages/verses]] suggest He may not be the only one.[[note]]A common compromise is that the other gods were demons who tricked humans into worshipping them.[[/note]]
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} in Catholicism. He demands to be the only one actually worshipped as God, but is fine with saints, angels, and even the souls in Purgatory being venerated and prayed to, even demanding it.

%%* ThePowerOfLove: See John 3:16.

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: While its His and His alone to carry out His wrath, He Himself ''[[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife gets no pleasure]]'' from the deaths of the wicked. Instead implores people to turn from their wicked ways and live.

* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: The "one and true deity" [[note]]Which is pretty debated in meaning itself[[/note]], but given how much He is angered at the worship of other gods as well as some weird [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment one time passages/verses]] suggest He may not be the only one.[[note]]A common compromise is that the other gods were demons who tricked humans into worshipping them.[[/note]]
** Downplayed in Catholicism. He demands to be the only one actually worshipped as God, but is fine with saints, angels, and even the souls in Purgatory being venerated and prayed to, even demanding it.

* TheGoodKing: Downplayed: while he's personally pious, he fails to root out heathen practices in the kingdom.

* MeaningfulRename: God has him change his name from Abram (High father) to Abraham (Father of many). Also significant since the change was made by putting a letter from god's name YHVH, into Arbam's name(the H). The letter ties into the covenant union between God and Abraham (the name change happens in a passage where God talks about the covenant) and the meaning ties into God's promise to Abraham (which was a big part what Abram personally got out of the covenant).

* MeaningfulRename: Renamed from "Sarai" to "Sarah" (though both translate as "Princess").Similar to her husband, this change was made by putting a letter ("h") from God's name (YHVH) nto Sarai's name, and was made in a chaoter addressing the covenant between God and Abraham.