Sentences with phrase «copied by monks»

It is impossible to take the scriptures literally as they were copied by monks many times over and usually in accordance to the political agenda of the church.

Not exact matches

Just after I finished How to Raise a Puppy, a friend mailed me his old copy of How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend, by the Monks of New Skete.

Thirty years ago, who would have dreamed that a 490 - page book by a Russian Orthodox monk would sweep Russia and sell millions of copies around the world?

Of course, that is a habit that Islam originally copied from the recitation of the Divine Office by priests and monks.

It was 1991, and the Madison, Wisconsin, policewoman needed treatment for a back injury - she'd been hoisting a stolen moped out of a car trunk; in the waiting room, Maples flipped through a copy of «Being Peace» by the Buddhist monk and activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

You do know the bible was written by multiple people, then translated (from 3 different languages) and copied by hand by monks for hundreds of years, right?

And to complicate matters the writers wrote in various languages which were duplicated by scribes and monks who made copies of text they could not understand.

For centuries, Harkleroad said, monks in monasteries cared for fragile books and labored making copies of the manuscripts by hand.

The Dragon Earl by Jade Lee $ 2.84 From the Jacket Copy: At Evelyn Stanton's lavish wedding, the bald - headed Chinese monk striding down the center aisle is shocking.

Once upon a time, the only books that existed were books copied by hand by monks and scribes and sold to the very rich for the equivalent of $ 5000 or $ 6000 a book.