Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Thus Melinoë is described as such not in order to be designated as a divinity of lower status, but rather as a young woman of marriageable age; the same word is applied to Hecate and Tethys (a Titaness) in their own Orphic hymns. [11] As an underworld "queen" (Basileia), Melinoë is at least partially syncretized with Persephone herself. [12]
The Bible is the most translated book in the world, with more translations (including an increasing number of sign languages) being produced annually. The United Bible Societies is a global fellowship of around 150 Bible Societies with the aim of translating publishing, and distributing the Bible.
John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Books VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com. Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes.
The most complete text of the Instruction of Amenemope is British Museum Papyrus 10474, acquired in Thebes by E. A. Wallis Budge in early 1888. [1] [9] The scroll is approximately 12 feet (3.7 m) long by 10 inches (250 mm) wide; the obverse side contains the hieratic text of the Instruction, while the reverse side is filled with a miscellany of lesser texts, including a "Calendar of Lucky and ...
Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible.It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics, which involves the study of principles of interpretation, both theory and methodology, for all forms of communication, nonverbal and verbal. [1]
How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel (Cambridge, 2004), ISBN 0521536227; Society and the Promise to David: A Reception History of 2 Samuel 7:1-17 (Oxford, 1999), ISBN 0-19-512680-7; The Word of God in Transition: From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period (Sheffield, 1995), ISBN 1-85075-550-7
When the Cithaeronian lion was harassing the kine of Thespius, the latter asked Herakles to kill the lion. [4] The son of Zeus hunted it for fifty days and finally slayed the beast.
The remaining books in the Ketuvim are the Book of Daniel, Ezra–Nehemiah and the Books of Chronicles. These books share a number of distinguishing characteristics: [citation needed] The Talmudic tradition ascribes late authorship to all of them. Daniel and Ezra are the only books in the Hebrew Bible with significant portions in Biblical Aramaic.