Sentences with phrase «as older manuscripts»

Not exact matches

In the original Hebrew manuscripts from which we get our King James Old Testament there were no breaks between certain books such as 1st and 2nd Samuel..., and Ezra and Nehemiah are rendered as one book, but the content is the same, only a different number of the same books.

In this passage, as in others, the Greek Septuagint Translation of the Old Testament, begun in Alexandria around 285 B.C., apparently goes back to an earlier Hebrew manuscript than our English Versions represent.

The venerable Durham Cathedral in England houses a manuscript containing a collection of eleventh - century Old English proverbs known as the Durham Proverbs.

Translating the oldest and most reliable manuscripts of any part of the Bible into English is often not nearly as simple as the «the word in the original language» = «this English word.»

It draws on the discovery of many older manuscripts, some of them, as in the case of the Isaiah scroll found at Qumran, a thousand years earlier than the texts used to translate the KJV.

The Nash Papyrus - one of the oldest known manuscripts containing text from the Hebrew Bible - has become one of the latest treasures of humanity to join Isaac Newton's notebooks, the Nuremberg Chronicle and other rare texts as part of the Cambridge Digital Library, the university said on Wednesday.

The earliest Gospel, Mark, has lost its original ending, as the Revised Version states, so that after verse eight of the final chapter we are dealing with a late addition not present in our oldest Greek manuscripts.

Those who distinguish between the «young» and «old» Marx claim that the ideas of the young Marx contained in The Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 18444 were abandoned by the older and mature Marx as remnants of an idealistic past connected with Hegel's teaching.

The basic ideas on the human being, as Marx expressed them in the Manuscripts, and the ideas of the older Marx as expressed in Capital, are not contradictory.

As he demonstrates, there are only two lengthy passages in the entire New Testament (the extended ending to Mark's Gospel; the woman caught in adultery in John 8) that are sharply contested, and that do not appear in the oldest and best manuscripts.

Noll is puzzled: how can Olbricht include as primitive the impulse of New Englanders to collect European books, to write 6,000 pages of manuscript as Cotton Mather did, to study German as Moses Stuart did, or to undertake perilous voyages to the Old World to hear complex lectures on early Christianity?

His team has prepared 13 manuscripts based on discoveries made largely by students, some as young as 8 years old.

His paper is taken from old manuscripts dating as far back as the seventeenth.

Synopsis: When shallow wannabe - writer Rory (Bradley Cooper) finds an old manuscript tucked away in a bag, he decides to pass the work off as his own.

In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a dying child; an apothecary's store, where members of the medical profession debated cures for the plague; a church, where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas for help; and finally, a central market square where traveling Franciscan monks declared their beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»

If the book happened to be chosen and accepted from the slush pile of manuscripts, the author (in reality the agent since old school publishers don't really like to interact with the actual author) was notified, and small check was sent as an «advance» for what the publisher hoped to at least earn out that advance.

In the five months since the «discovery» and planned publication of the manuscript was announced, countless pages and social media streams have been dedicated to debates over the 89 - year - old author's agency in the decision and discussions of what the book, written as an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird but set some 20 years later, might reveal about some of literature's most beloved characters.

The 1,600 year - old manuscript only contains fragments of the epic, which tells the tale of the ancient hero Aeneas as he ventures from Troy to Italy and consists of 76 surviving pages, and 50 illustrations.

Avoid self - congratulatory behind the scenes content such as author bios, old drafts of your manuscripts and the like.

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.

As I mentioned in the previous post, it would be prudent to write with a style that fits the genre of the manuscript you are querying, as well as your own personal flair (is your MC a snarky fifteen - year - old or an 18th century vampirAs I mentioned in the previous post, it would be prudent to write with a style that fits the genre of the manuscript you are querying, as well as your own personal flair (is your MC a snarky fifteen - year - old or an 18th century vampiras well as your own personal flair (is your MC a snarky fifteen - year - old or an 18th century vampiras your own personal flair (is your MC a snarky fifteen - year - old or an 18th century vampire?

At rejection 15, she was feeling less giddy; at 40, she felt that the past year and one - half of rejections was getting old — she began to lie to her friends about what she did on the weekends... as she continued to tweak her manuscript.

Housed inside a 14th century building in the old Jewish quarter, exhibits here include Hebrew tombstones as well as a copy of a Catalonia - produced 15th century Hebrew manuscript.

Besides, reading lontar (an old manuscript which is written on the leave of Palmyra palm) regularly as his habit also enriched his knowledge.

From the very first such royally commissioned manuscripts, the ancient kings were recast as contemporary Islamic rulers, while old heroes were embedded within Iranian culture.

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Beginning in 1987, he worked on several manuscripts until, in 2002, he published Blue Road to Atlantis - a novel about making courageous choices in life as told from the perspective of of «Old Fish» - a huge marlin who is on a journey of self - discovery.

[Here's a small reference I used in my «Sauces» folder in my cookbook manuscript: Chef Karl Adam (d) in Germany is acknowledged as contributing the recipes in an old Asbach Uralt wonderful small cookbook from the 1950's, dedicated to using the cognac in cooking, and HeddaAdlon, in the same cookbook, last owner of the famous Hotel Adlon in Berlin's «Unterden Linden,» is credited with saying: «Three indispensable ingredients are needed for the creation of every good sauce, without any one of these the sauce will have neithersavour nor substance.»