Sentence examples for dead texts from inspiring English sources

In the 1970s, Ursula Rößler-Köhler Rößler-Köhlersity of Bonn begat a working group thedevelop the history of Book of Dead texts.

Today the Book of the Dead Project, as it is called, maintains a database of documentation and photography covering 80% of extant copies and fragments from the corpus of Book of the Dead texts, and provides current services to Egyptologists.

Phillips has found a functionally dead text, a book nobody remembers or reads anymore.

It is important to realize that without this equipment the genome would be just a dead text with nobody to read it.

Campbell continued his battle with the Necronomicon – AKA the Sumerian Book of The Dead, a text with the power to reanimate the deceased – in 1987's Evil Dead II.

Enough people are dead from texting and driving".

Ereshkigal, in Mesopotamian religion, goddess in the Sumero-Akkadian pantheon who was Lady of the Great Place (i.e., the abode of the dead) and in texts of the 3rd millennium bc wife of the god Ninazu (elsewhere accounted her son); in later texts she was the wife of Nergal.

Thus, the prepositions bet ("in") and kaf ("like") are interchanged in the Masoretic and Dead Sea Scroll texts of Isaiah.

The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, which contained texts intended to aid the deceased in the afterlife, is a superb example of early graphic design.

With his dramatic oratorios Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher ("Joan of Arc at the Stake") and La Danse des morts ("The Dance of the Dead"), both on texts by Paul Claudel, he turned toward the mysticism and religious meaning that underlie many of his later works.

The Egyptians called their hieroglyphs "words of god" and reserved their use for exalted purposes, such as communicating with divinities and spirits of the dead through funerary texts.