Sentence examples for surviving version of the from inspiring English sources

They correctly pointed out that the story contained many clearly apocryphal Gnostic elements, and that the earliest surviving version of the text, written in fourth century Mesopotamia, dated from at least two centuries after the events described; up to the beginning of this century, the document was sometimes dismissed as a pious romance.

Bernard Shapero, a London-based book dealer, this year brought the earliest surviving version of the "Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the Earth", a seven-panelled panorama made in 1602 by Matteo Ricci, the most famous Jesuit priest in China.

But, as Bloom has pointed out, there is equally no evidence for a male author; so we may, if we wish, say that this female courtier was responsible for the oldest and strongest surviving version of the Bible, the one labeled J because the author refers to God as Jahweh or Yahweh, as distinguished from the writer or redactor called E, for Elohim, his (or her) usual name for God.

The earliest surviving version of the legend is a Dutch print about an Amsterdam woman named Jacamijntjen Jacobs.

Here again the Met offers spectacular examples, including illuminated pages from one of the most exquisite surviving versions of the Persian epic known as "Shahnama" or "Book of Kings," created in the courts of 15th-century Persia.

The late tenth-century chronicler Æthelweard, who used sources independent of surviving versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, called him "King of the Mercians".

The surviving versions of the Vita Sexburge were compiled after 1106 (the year the relics of Seaxburh were translated) and are copies from an earlier manuscript, now lost.

The music became known in modern times through the 19th century discovery of an incomplete manuscript score which differs in many respects from the surviving versions of the libretto.

The surviving versions of the Vita Sexburge, compiled after 1106, describe her early life, marriage to Eorcenberht, retirement from secular life and her final years as a nun and abbess at Ely. Seaxburh was a daughter of Anna, King of East Anglia, the son of Eni, who ruled the East Angles from the early 640s and was slain together with his son Jurmin, at the Battle of Bulcamp in 653 or 654.

Today, surviving versions of this face, with its vast almond eyes, make you think of an alien - a bug-eyed, sexy alien.

The earliest surviving version of Adams's text, the Report of a Constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is here published with full annotation for the first time.