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Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. [1] The tradition probably began with the legalistic code of the Book of Deuteronomy and was then gradually extended until Moses, as the central character, came to be regarded not just as the mediator of law but as author of both laws and ...
A mosaic novel is a novel in which individual chapters or short stories share a common setting or set of characters with the aim of telling a linear story from beginning to end, with the individual chapters, however, refracting a plurality of viewpoints and styles.
Madame de Lafayette (1634–1693), author of La Princesse de Clèves; Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747) Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763) Voltaire (1694–1778), philosophe, satirist, playwright, author of Candide; Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne; Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut
A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. [1] Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world.
According to tradition, they were dictated by God to Moses, [13] but when modern critical scholarship began to be applied to the Bible, it was discovered that the Pentateuch was not the unified text one would expect from a single author. [14] As a result, the Mosaic authorship of the Torah had been largely rejected by leading scholars by the ...
French and Francophone literature; by category: History; Medieval; Renaissance; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th century; Contemporary; Movements; Précieuses; Classicism ...
trans. Robert Savage: The Mosaic Distinction or The Price of Monotheism (SUP, 2009) ISBN 0-8047-6160-4. Ägyptische Geheimnisse (2003) ISBN 3-7705-3687-8; Theologie und Weisheit im alten Ägypten (2005) ISBN 3-7705-4069-7; Die Zauberflöte (2005) ISBN 3-446-20673-6; Thomas Mann und Ägypten: Mythos und Monotheismus in den Josephsromanen (Munich ...
French literature (French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French.