Exploring the world of art, history, science and literature. Through Religion
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The Cambridge Mishnah
As a written authority, it is second only to the biblical text and can be used as a source of authority for making judgements.
Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad
The early Upanishads are the conceptual bases of much of later Hindu thought and practice.
Genizah Manuscripts
Texts (about 200,000 altogether), mostly hand-written on parchment or paper in the Middle Ages.
Mortuary Roll
It is 11 metres long and 18 cm wide, made from pieces of parchment sewn together to form a long strip, which is then rolled up.
Proslogion
Proslogion is thought to have put down in writing one of the earliest versions of the so-called ‘ontological argument’
Nash Papyrus
Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nash papyrus was the oldest known biblical text.
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines
The book was most probably copied by Buddhist monks, in what today is Bengal, in eastern India. It was commissioned and donated to a major monastery, by a female donor, who is mentioned in the final lines.
Faculty of Divinity
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