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Their representative men had made a 'Recension' of the
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Recension I contains a simpler version: "formam infantis invenit."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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This work, which they dubbed “Ibn Hasday's Neoplatonist” actually predated and influenced both Isaac Israeli and the Longer Recension of the Theology of Aristotle, and Stern's article on “Ibn Hasday's Neoplatonist” is an important component of any thorough study of the philosophy of Isaac Israeli.
Isaac Israeli Levin, Leonard 2007
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Of the Book of the Dead that was in use under the fifth and sixth dynasties we have no copies, but many Chapters of the Recension in use under the eleventh and twelfth dynasties are found written in cursive hieroglyphs upon wooden sarcophagi, many of which may be seen in the
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As the greater number of such rolls have been found in the tombs of priests and others at Thebes, the Recension that was in use from the eighteenth to the twenty-first dynasty (1600-900 B.C.) is commonly called the THEBAN RECENSION.
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The following good typical examples of Hymns to R [= a] are taken from the oldest copies of the Theban Recension of the Book of the
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Several forms of the name occur in the older literature, e.g. in the Theban Recension of the
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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The Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead contains about one hundred and ninety Chapters, many of which have Rubrics stating what effects will be produced by their recital, and describing ceremonies that must be performed whilst they are being recited.
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Recension, in its earliest form, is usually written with black ink in vertical columns of hieroglyphs, which are separated by black lines; the titles of the Chapters, the opening words of each section, and the
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The last Recension of the Book of the Dead known to us in a complete form is the SAĪTE RECENSION, which came into existence about 600 B.C., and continued in use from that time to the Roman Period.
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