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In 1940, the bible was unbound in order to be photographed and then rebound. The original parchment pastedown was set aside, only to be identified in 2001 as an abacus board of the kind introduced by Gerbert of Aurillac (died 1003). [2] It was probably copied much earlier than the bible, since it was considered scrap by the time the bible was ...
Scythe is a 2016 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth.
The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche Zenobia.While walking through "the goodly city of Edina" with her 5-inch-tall (130 mm) poodle and her 3-foot-tall (0.91 m) black servant, Pompey, she is drawn to a large Gothic cathedral.
Originally, there were believed to be eight manuscripts in the Chester Beatty collection containing portions of the Old Testament. However, what was believed to be two different manuscripts actually belonged to the same codex, resulting in a total of seven Old Testament manuscripts in the collection, all following the text of the Septuagint (an early Greek translation of the Old Testament).
The Ketef Hinnom scrolls, also described as Ketef Hinnom amulets, are the oldest surviving texts currently known from the Hebrew Bible, dated to c. 600 BCE. [2] The text, written in the Paleo-Hebrew script (not the Babylonian square letters of the modern Hebrew alphabet, more familiar to most modern readers), is from the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, and has been described as "one of ...
The Scythian genealogical myth was an epic cycle of the Scythian religion detailing the origin of the Scythians.This myth held an important position in the worldview of Scythian society, and was popular among both the Scythians of the northern Pontic region and the Greeks who had colonised the northern shores of the Pontus Euxinus.
OLD FORT, N.C. – As floodwater from Helene receded in western North Carolina, residents discovered a Bible that had become stuck on a fence post while opened to the book of Revelation. The Bible ...
A scholarly edition of the book was published in August 2015, edited by Professor Meir Bar Ilan of Bar Ilan University. The book also includes an English translation of the original text. [5] The work is included in the contemporary The 120-Book Holy Bible and Apocrypha Collection: Literal Standard Version (LSV). [6]