The Bible is the foundation text of modern Christianity, and the term also applies to the Jewish holy book. Though the two overlap, and deal with the same God, they are not identical.
References
- Philippians 2:12 is quoted in Youth '68.
- The Biblical patriarch Noah appeared in Muppets from Space and has been referenced on other occasions.
- In Muppet Treasure Island, Long John Silver upbraids his crew for daring to desecrate "the Holy Scripture" by tearing a page from the Bible to give Silver the Black Spot.
- In the final "Land of Gorch" sketch, which aired on Saturday Night Live on September 8, 1976, King Ploobis assures his troupe that they have been resurrected "as it was predicted and spoke of in the great book." Not the Bible, as Scred assumes, but Bil Baird's Book of Puppetry.
- The Dinosaurs episode "The Golden Child" featured the Book of the Dinosaurs, a sacred text patterned after the Bible.