Sentences with phrase «old manuscript only»

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.

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.

A little later, packing up his manuscripts, Ford happened to see «the page and the very commended phrase «old - eyed», and to notice that somehow in the rounds of fatigued retyping that used to precede a writer's final sign - off on a book in the days before word processors, the original and rather dully hybridised «cold - eyed» had somehow lost its «c» and become «old - eyed», only nobody'd noticed since they both made a kind of sense.»

This book is now published only after two of my colleagues, Professor Julius A. Bewer and Professor James E. Frame, one an authority on the Old Testament and the other on the New, have read the manuscript with painstaking care.

Sorry, but most the oldest manuscript is only a few miles from where I am sitting, I could go read it tomorrow if I want.

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.

Across England and Scotland were secret groups of Lollards, a network of people who for a century now had nurtured among themselves a tradition of reading translations of the text of the Bible in manuscript excerpts from various popular sections of the Old and New Testaments, and occasionally from the complete edition of Wycliffe's (or Purvey's) fourteenth - century translation, rare though it was, the only English translation in existence.

St. Catherine's Monastery is located on Mount Sinai in Egypt and it currently houses the oldest continually operating library in the world, containing ancient and medieval manuscripts second only to those held by the Vatican Library.

In the old days (we're talking 15 years ago) there was really only one choice for writers who wanted to release their words to the world: You sent your manuscript to a publishing house, and then you prayed.