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    Emily Dickinson Archive or EDA is an open access website for the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson. The purpose of this website is to serve as the central place for Dickinson’s manuscripts, poems, and letters. The long term goal of this website is to be the premiere archive host for access to serving Dickinson manuscripts, letters, and modern and historical editors of poems and letters. The funding for this archive has been provided by the Harvard Library, The Sidney Verba Fund, The Houghton…

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    Manichean Texts

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    Manichean Texts of the Silk Road Tun-Huang was a major destination along the Silk Road. The caves of the thousand Buddhas contained many important manuscripts and pieces of art which have been used by historians to learn about the cultures of the Silk Road. Among these were three Manichean texts written in Chinese. These are the Hymnscroll, the Compendium of the Doctrines of Mani, and the Traité Pelliot. These are significant because they are some of the only written documents we have of the…

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    Timbuktu

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    31). Being that Timbuktu was the hub of ancient manuscripts and dominated book collecting for centuries, his whole life was dedicated to traveling to small villages and to major cities and preserve Islamic culture. When he succeeded, this same time hard-line extremists swept the region in from the north and seized the city in 2012. Haidara took on a different kind of preservation effort, and was forced to disperse, smuggle, and hide the manuscripts to safety out of the Ahmed Baba Institute…

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    cultures where they used drawings and simple text to express a shorty story of their situation. In understanding Comics, McCloud use many facts that will help back up his intentioned towards the direction he was heading. One thing he mentioned was a manuscript that was discovered in 1519, McCloud said, “This 36-foot long, BRIGHTLY-COLORED painting screenfold tells of the great MILITARY and POLITICAL HERE 8-DEER “TIGER-CLAW” is it comics? You BET it us! We can even read some!” (McCloud 10).This…

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    Christians do not have the original manuscripts of various books of the Bible that our faith is based upon myths, could vary from translation to translation, and is not accurate because it was written by man. However, the evidence that the Bible is a trusted source for information speaks for itself through its scientific accuracy, historic accuracy, and its prophetic accuracy. In addition, there is substantial evidence that the author of the Bible are reliable, the manuscripts that we have are…

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    The New Testament Summary

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    about back-round information to how people today received God’s word. The reader gets to see just how important the text is and the effort to preserve the word of God. In this book the reader will find out the types of writing materials used for manuscript. The languages used in the text. Whether text was written in print or cursive. Discoveries where and when scripts were found. Criticisms of the New Testament. Books that were written but are not included in the Bible. Summary: Chapter one…

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    2). Interestingly, the first printed books were no cheaper than a manuscript book, although, when printed books became cheaper, the quality of their illustrations fell (Bland, 1958, p. 101). While the cost reduction of books may not be directly related to the quality of the images, the shortage of skilled artist to create…

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    convicting arguments that Mark Straus states in his ACE Interview- “Reliability of The New Testament.” The first was of the New Testament and the second one was of Science and Art of the Texture Criticism. Inspiration and inerrancy apply to the original manuscripts. Our modern-day translations are the Word of God only the extent that they accurately reflect the original texts, which are produced under the inspiration of God (Praxis, pg. 37-38). First, it should be understood that the personality…

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    power, Hedda retires into a room and shoots herself with the second pistol. Judge Brack is given the final words of the play: “People don’t do such things!” And yet they do, in Ibsen’s play. In Hedda Gabler, the vine leaves in Lovborg’s hair, the manuscript that he considers his child, even such props as General Gabler’s pistols, all take on a magical quality. Hedda’s suicide demonstrates the possibility of a self-destructive and romantic action that can break through the routine, realistic…

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    publicize this manuscript and it became one of the most pre-ordered books of all time. At 88 years old Harper lee’s mental and physical health were in bad shape and family members questioned whether she actually intended for “Go Set a Watchman” to be released to the public and whether Ms. Carter was manipulating Harper Lee because of her poor health in order for her gain. If I were the publisher of this book I would not release “Go Set a Watchmen”…

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