Sentences with phrase «most of the ancient manuscripts»
In most of the ancient manuscripts the Gospel according to Mark ends with 16.8: whether he deliberately stopped there, or meant to write more but was prevented, or did write a conclusion which was afterwards lost, is an open question.
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Most of the best manuscripts read, literally, «Take care not to practise your righteousness before men»; but instead of «righteousness» some excellent manuscripts have «charity» (KJV «alms»), while the famous Codex Sinaiticus and a few of the ancient versions have «giving.»
Homer's Iliad, the most renowned book of ancient Greece, is the second best - preserved literary work of all antiquity, with 643 copies of manuscript support discovered to date.
The Grolier Codex, an ancient document that is among the rarest books in the world, has been regarded with skepticism since it was reportedly unearthed by looters from a cave in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1960s, but a new study claims it is both genuine and likely the most ancient of all surviving manuscripts from ancient America.