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Oriental Orthodoxy. Lutheranism. Feast. February 22 [1] Papias ( Greek: Παπίας) was a Greek Apostolic Father, Bishop of Hierapolis (modern Pamukkale, Turkey), and author who lived c. 60 – c. 130 AD [2] [3] He wrote the Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord ( Greek: Λογίων Κυριακῶν Ἐξήγησις) in five books.
Translation Notes a bene placito: from one well pleased: i.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure). a capite ad calcem: from head to heel: i.e., "from top to bottom", "all the way through", or "from head ...
English translations of Homer. Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.
Ibn Tibbon family – translator of Greek, Roman, Arab, and Jewish works from Arabic. Emperor D. Pedro II – translator of poetry by Luís de Camões from Portuguese. Abraham Regelson – translator of literature from English and Yiddish. Yitzhak Salkinsohn – relatively early (19th century) translator of Milton and Shakespeare.
Myles Coverdale. Catholicism; later an early Anglican reformer and regarded as "proto- Puritan " in his later life. Myles Coverdale, first name also spelt Miles (1488 – 20 January 1569), was an English ecclesiastical reformer chiefly known as a Bible translator, preacher and, briefly, Bishop of Exeter (1551–1553). [2]
The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the fourth and fifth ...
A folio from 𝔓 46 containing 2 Corinthians 11:33-12:9. There are three New Testament manuscripts that are part of the Chester Beatty Papyri. The first, P. I, is labelled under the Gregory-Åland numbering system as 𝔓 45, and was originally a codex of 110 leaves that contained the four canonical gospels and Acts. 30 fragmentary leaves remain, consisting of two small leaves of the Gospel ...
Baburnama. The Bāburnāma ( Chagatay: وياقع, romanized: Vayaqıʿ, lit. 'The Events'; [1] Persian: بابرنامه, romanized : Bāburnāma, lit. 'History of Babur') is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is written in the Chagatai ...