As the canon of Western mythos and philosophy (despite its Eastern origins), The Bible has influenced fiction since the time of the flood. This supertrope deals with biblical motifs featured in everything from epic poetry to the newest issue of your favorite Shōnen manga.
Compare Hijacked by Jesus for works that bend other religions and their motifs to biblical archetypes. See Crystal Dragon Jesus for works that feature biblical motifs under the guise of separate religions. These will often appear in Love Is Like Religion songs. For works that explicitly quote The Bible, see As the Good Book Says....
Note: Biblical Motifs begin and end with The Bible. A trope may deal with a Jewish or Christian concepts and still be unrelated to the canon.
Character tropes explicitly based on biblical figures:
- All-Loving Hero
- Angel Unaware
- The Antichrist
- The Armies of Heaven
- Biblical Bad Guy
- Cain and Abel
- Celestial Paragons and Archangels
- The Dutiful Son
- False Prophet
- God
- Good Samaritan
- Good Shepherd
- The Hand Is God
- Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- Jacob and Esau
- Jesus
- Lilith: Not actually in the Bible, but does appear in connected legends.
- Madonna Archetype
- Moses Archetype
- Nephilim
- A Saint Named Mary
- Samson and Delilah
- Satan
- Sin Eater
- The Three Wise Men
Tropes dealing with specific biblical events or conventions:
- Adventures in the Bible
- The Almighty Dollar: The New Testament in particular inverts this, and portrays money itself as a god, (Matthew 6:24, John 2:13-16, Matthew 21:12-17, Mark 11:15-19, and Luke 19:45-48)
- The Ark
- As the Good Book Says...: The Bible itself often quotes the Bible — the Prophets quote the Pentateuch, the New Testament quotes the Old Testament, and so on.
- Away in a Manger
- Bible Times
- Blood Oath: Yes, this is a Biblical Motif. The concept of eternally (or at least lifelong) binding blood covenants runs throughout The Bible.
- Caught Up in the Rapture
- Curse of Babel
- Crucial Cross
- Crucified Hero Shot
- David Versus Goliath
- Deal with the Devil
- Demonic Possession
- Devil's Pitchfork
- Emissary from the Divine
- Flaming Sword: From the story of Adam and Eve
- Forbidden Fruit
- Garden of Eden
- Go and Sin No More
- The Great Flood
- Heaven
- Heaven Seeker
- Hell
- Holy Ground
- Holier Than Thou
- A House Divided
- "Last Supper" Steal
- The Legions of Hell
- Moses in the Bulrushes
- Never Accepted in His Hometown
- Mark of the Beast
- Parting the Sea
- Passion Play
- Pietà Plagiarism
- The Promised Land
- Rash Promise
- Second Coming
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Signs of the End Times
- Tempting Apple
- There Is a God!
- Tower of Babel
- Turn the Other Cheek
- Uriah Gambit
- Walk on Water
