Sentences with phrase «from earlier manuscripts»

Many of the books of the Bible, including the Synoptic Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke, from which much of our knowledge of the words and deeds of Jesus is derived — are compilations from earlier manuscripts and fragments.

According to The Times, Michael Phelps from the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library in California and his colleagues took numerous pictures across the spectrum, «then used algorithms to remove the most recent text and highlight what was previously there».

This passage was not originally part of the Gospel according to John, being absent from early manuscripts; but there is no reason to doubt that it was a genuine piece of tradition.

Not exact matches

Second, the earliest extant manuscripts date from the 11th century and are not 6000 + years old.

Today attempts to arrive at the text of the New Testament center on three sorts of materials: ancient Greek manuscripts, ancient versions in languages other than Greek (e.g., Latin, Syriac and Coptic), and early quotations said to come from the New Testament.

It was translated from texts finalized in the 16th century, which have long since been superseded by superior Hebrew and Greek texts based on much earlier manuscripts.

The earliest copies of The Jewish War by Josephus (originally composed in the 1st century AD), in contrast, come from nine manuscripts written in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries.

[106] The earliest copies of The Jewish War by Josephus (originally composed in the 1st century AD), in contrast, come from nine manuscripts written in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries.

For example, the earliest surviving copies of parts of the Roman historian Tacitus» main work, the Annals of Imperial Rome (written in 116 AD), come from a single manuscript written in 850 AD, although for other parts of his work, the earliest copies come from the 11th century, while other parts of his work have been lost.

There are also quotations from the New Testament provided by the writers of the early Church, and though the manuscripts of the patristic writings are often late the quotations they give were not often altered by copyists.

(I mentioned earlier up, but the manuscript is no longer with me so I cobbled this together from the original draft, hence the spottiness!)

Manuscripts in Europe from the 16th to early 20th century reveal over 100 medicinal uses for cocoa including stimulating breast milk production.

When artists in the early Italian Renaissance began applying egg tempera to large wooden panels instead of manuscript pages, they had to build up their images from tiny brush strokes.

This is the conclusion that Christopher Graney, a physicist at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky, came to after reading manuscripts from another astronomer who was active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, at the same time as Galileo.

published materials, images, maps, and manuscripts relating to Delaware history and genealogy, dating from earliest settlements to the present.

Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European

The earliest known document in the Gujart script is a manuscript dating from 1592

Focus Features is behind the production based on Austin Wright's novel Tony and Susan, and Hammer has a key role in the that focuses on a woman (Amy Adams) who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion.

One day, Susan receives a package containing a manuscript from her ex-husband Tony Hastings (Jake Gyllenhaal), whom she left 20 years earlier when he was still just a struggling writer, and is surprised to discover that the unpublished novel, titled «Nocturnal Animals,» has been dedicated to her.

Bringing together over 50 unique medieval manuscripts and early print editions from the 8th to 16th centuries, Discovering Literature: Medieval presents a new way to explore some of the earliest works and most influential figures of English literature.

I don't check the statistics often (and especially not early in a calendar year when manuscripts from the prior year may well be still pending), but authors occasionally need the information for tenure and promotion purposes.

Submitting your manuscript too early is the primary reason for rejection letters from publishers.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

Once, acquisitions editors could be expected to handle a lot of the developmental editorial work of a manuscript, taking it from an agent at an earlier stage than is likely now.

However, I submitted the 40,000 word manuscript for my novel to ninety agents and editors earlier this year, and the feedback I got from several agents was that it's too short by industry standards.

What we meant earlier by «in detail» is that if you're working with someone on an in - depth developmental edit, expect a substantial amount of interaction and lengthy evaluation of your manuscript from the editor, with some back and forth discussion.

In developmental editing, I work with writers at any stage of the writing process, from early drafts to final manuscripts.

Pera, who has worked with a range of legendary writers ranging from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Enrique Krauze, earlier told Publishing Perspectives that the major difference between publishing operations in Spain and in Latin America is the lack of a culture of literary agents, particularly in Mexico, where, in what sounds like a throwback to a romantic, idealistic past, writers send their manuscripts directly to publishers, who then sift through the slush pile.

Alan Orloff wrote on the 7CriminalMinds blog about his experience with the manuscript for Running From the Past, a kidnapping suspense thriller published through Kindle Scout in early 2015.

Comments from D. Sandquist, S. Walker, P. Sharpe, and several anonymous reviewers improved earlier drafts of the manuscript.

Featuring photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, source material and two early video works from the Larry Rivers Papers, the exhibition explores the ways in which the archives contextualize Rivers's multi-dimensional artistic career.

With earlier series, Xie has painted manuscripts and rare books from university and museum collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Art Reference Library.

From his earliest work, dated to the late 1990s and inspired by the writings of Charles Fourier, an 18th - century utopian thinker, and the drawings of Henry Darger, an outsider artist and writer who produced a voluminous illustrated manuscript about pre-pubescent Amazons leading a rebellion against child abusers, Chan has been fascinated by the contrast between ideal visions and the violent, sexually charged feelings and sensations that inspire them.

The second Morris show, «Boustrophedons,» is on 40th Street in the new Castelli space, with the title taken from the Greek word for the winding text, sometimes used in illuminated manuscripts of the early Renaissance, that must be read alternately left to right and right to left.

Indian, Orissa, Krishna and Brahma, Late 19th / early 20th century, Folio from the tenth book of a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana, tempera and ink on wove paper.

Through shifts in scale and substitutions of materials sculptor Noah Loesberg recontextualizes items from historical sources like early 20th century builder's guides, Persian illuminated manuscripts, images downloaded from the Internet and our contemporary built environment.

The exhibition takes its title from an early unpublished manuscript of a comedic novel by Karl Marx, Scorpion and Felix, in which three characters Merten, the tailor; Scorpion, his son; and Felix, his chief apprentice, engage in a satirical narrative that abstractly references irresolvable philosophical polemics.

Several of the paintings in the exhibition are derived from what I think of as illuminated manuscript paintings, so in other words I am trying to get in touch with this earlier art historical reality and trying to update it in my own sense... the idea of the scribe, the idea of the mosaic patterning, has to do with ancient craftsmanship being brought up to date and being filtered through my own artistic desire, I suppose, in terms of what I would like to see in the world.»

The works include pre-Islamic artefacts, Orientalist paintings and photographs, as well as precious works of Islamic art from Syria's rich history: early Qurans, medieval manuscripts, glass, ceramics, textiles and tiles.

To mark both the 50th and 70th anniversaries of The Little Prince's publication, the Morgan Library and Museum mounted major exhibitions of Saint - Exupéry's draft manuscript, preparatory drawings, and similar materials that it had obtained earlier from a variety of sources.

if such voyages were made surely it is thought they could not have been accomplished save for the month of August when the ice was dissolved» (From The Flatey Book And Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts Concerning America As Early As The Tenth Century).

The self - report FAD has a very large evidence base arising from peer - reviewed manuscripts and, from quite early in its development, it has been used in medical populations (Kabacoff, Miller, Bishop, Epstein, & Keitner, 1990).