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  2. The Maxims of Ptahhotep - Wikipedia

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    The text was discovered in Thebes in 1847 by Egyptologist M. Prisse d'Avennes. [2] The Instructions of Ptahhotep are considered didactic wisdom literature belonging to the genre of sebayt . [ 3 ] There are four copies of the Instructions, and the only complete version, Papyrus Prisse , is located in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . [ 4 ]

  3. Great uncial codices - Wikipedia

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    The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek. They are the Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library, the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus in the British Library, and the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus ...

  4. Novum Testamentum Graece - Wikipedia

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    Novum Testamentum Graece (The New Testament in Greek) is a critical edition of the New Testament in its original Koine Greek published by Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (German Bible Society), forming the basis of most modern Bible translations and biblical criticism.

  5. Ipuwer Papyrus - Wikipedia

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    The Ipuwer Papyrus (officially Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto) is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and now held in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands. [1] It contains the Admonitions of Ipuwer, an incomplete literary work whose original composition is dated no earlier than the late ...

  6. 3 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    3 Maccabees. 3 Maccabees, [a] also called the Third Book of Maccabees, is a book written in Koine Greek, likely in the 1st century BC in either the late Ptolemaic period of Egypt or in early Roman Egypt. Despite the title, the book has nothing to do with the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees.

  7. Golden Verses - Wikipedia

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    Fyodor Bronnikov, Pythagoreans' Hymn to the Rising Sun, 1869. [1] Oil on canvas. The Golden Verses (Greek: ἔπη χρυσᾶ or χρύσεα ἔπη, Chrysea Epē [kʰrýsea épɛː]; Latin: Aurea Carmina) are a collection of moral exhortations comprising 71 lines written in dactylic hexameter. They are traditionally attributed to the ...

  8. Tantum ergo - Wikipedia

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    See media help. " Tantum ergo " is the incipit of the last two verses of Pange lingua, a Medieval Latin hymn composed by St Thomas Aquinas circa A.D. 1264. The "Genitori genitoque" and "Procedenti ab utroque" portions are adapted from Adam of Saint Victor 's sequence for Pentecost. [1] The hymn's Latin incipit literally translates to "Therefore ...

  9. Full-text search - Wikipedia

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    Full-text search. In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer -stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or ...