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Thanks to Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, and its film adaptation, many people think that the books that constitute ...
The Ephesians hated the Nicolaitans ... The variant is due to the manuscripts used for these translations, with most translations referencing the washing of garments, which symbolize having ...
Manuscript experts and enthusiasts have lauded Qatar's role in preserving Arabic manuscripts. The commendation came during a seminar organized by the Qatar National Library (QNL) and the Ministry ...
ProWritingAid has introduced its Manuscript Analysis tool, a feature specifically designed to assist authors in enhancing their manuscripts through developmental editing. This innovative tool ...
A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as ...
Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP/Bram Janssen) For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities ...
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents. By Alan Yuhas Torn ...
A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a rare book dealer on the Upper West Side is being repatriated to ...
Roman historian Tacitus' ancient manuscripts called Annals have surfaced online. They discuss the persecution of Christians and mention Jesus Christ. Tacitus references Jesus' crucifixion by ...
An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems. Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain an ...
Nearly 13,000 unpublished manuscripts with the Oriental Research Institute (ORI), whose contents are not known to the world, will be catalogued and published in an initiative that may provide ...
It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...