Book of Life (disambiguation)

Book of Life is:

• a list of people who are pleasing to God mentioned in the Jewish and Christian Bibles, see Book of Life
• a writing from the Jewish mysticism of the 13th century, see Sefer ha-Chajjim
• in popular science representations a metaphor for the genetic information stored in the DNA molecule

In allusion to the first meaning mentioned, various directories with the names of the deceased were referred to as Liber vitae ( Latin book of life ) in the Middle Ages :

• the early medieval fraternity books
• the high medieval necrologies
• the late medieval annual journals

The term also appears in the title of the film From the Book of Life from 1916.

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.