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Ancient text corpora are the entire collection of texts from the period of ancient history, defined in this article as the period from the beginning of writing up to 300 AD. These corpora are important for the study of literature , history , linguistics , and other fields, and are a fundamental component of the world's cultural heritage .
"Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. [1] It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos , partly because it conveys an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its contrast to the milder sentiments found in other ...
The Septuagint (/ ˈ s ɛ p tj u ə dʒ ɪ n t / SEP-tew-ə-jint), [1] sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Koinē Greek: Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, romanized: Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, [2] is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original ...
The texts are classified as follows: Historical Texts (CTH 1–220) Administrative Texts (CTH 221–290) Legal Texts (CTH 291–298) Lexical Texts (CTH 299–309) Literary Texts (CTH 310–320) Mythological Texts (CTH 321–370) Hymns and Prayers (CTH 371–389) Ritual Texts (CTH 390–500) Cult Inventory Texts (CTH 501–530)
[253]: 133 For centuries the written text had less significance than the will of the church as represented by the Pope, since the church saw the text as having been created by the church. One cause of the Reformation was the perceived need to reorient Christianity around its early text as authoritative.
Most commentators divide Numbers into three sections based on locale (Mount Sinai, Kadesh-Barnea and the plains of Moab), linked by two travel sections; [7] an alternative is to see it as structured around the two generations of those condemned to die in the wilderness and the new generation who will enter Canaan, making a theological distinction between the disobedience of the first ...
A page from the Ormulum demonstrating the editing performed over time by Orrm, [1] as well as the insertions of new readings by "Hand B". The Ormulum or Orrmulum is a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, written by an Augustinian canon named Orrm (or Orrmin) and consisting of just under 19,000 lines of early Middle English verse.
Jacob Jordaens - Abraham Grapheus as Job. The Testament of Job (also referred to as Divrei Lyov, [1] literally meaning "Words of Job") is a book written in the 1st century BC or the 1st century AD (thus part of a tradition often called "intertestamental literature" by Christian scholars).