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The Shahnama, the Persian national epic, comes to life in an intricate illustrated 14th-century text made under the Mongols, ...

He consulted the text, which is about Cyrus, a pagan king anointed by God to rescue Jews from captivity in Babylon. It stood ...

The medieval manuscript consists of prayers, poems and drawings from the Hebrew Bible with pages of the oldest discovered Passover Haggadah. "This sacred book holds a surprising connection to the ...

Allegedly, copies of the Bible were chained to the walls of churches during the Middle Ages so that people could not take them home to read. Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also ...

His publications include An Introduction to the Medieval Bible. His current scholarship focuses on the history of medieval Christian Hebraism. In addition to his scholarship, Professor van Liere has ...

It's known as the "City of Jasmine" and people first settled there in the 3rd millennium BC - but tourists are warned against ...

The Vulgate became the predominantly used Bible of the Middle Ages and has endured to this day as a translation that at least one prominent linguist considers one of the very best available. “ ...

The Bible is written on vellum (Parchment), the standard writing material in medieval England, this was made from treated animal skins. The holes in the vellum were made when the skin was being ...

Renaissance literature and its classical and biblical backgrounds; Elizabeth I and the writers of her court; the Bible and literature ... Edited by Donald Stump, Linda Shenk, and Carole Levin.

It warns of 'incidences of violence, mental illness and expressions of Christian faith' in other medieval texts also ...