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Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ: 1 Peter 3:18-22 in Its Tradition-Historical and Literary Context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
1 Peter 3:18-22 records Christ’s proclamation to the “imprisoned spirits.” Interpreting this passage has challenged even the most competent exegetes.
PIERCE, CHAD
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Spirits or angels? : a study in the Book of Revelation and its background [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited ...
Murphy, Rosalyn F. Thomas
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The Ethiopic Script: Linguistic Features and Socio-cultural Connotations

open access: yes, 2017
During the last two millennia, a large corpus of texts were produced in the Ethiopic script. This ancient African writing system is peculiar to the Ethio-Eritrean region at the Horn of Africa, particularly to the Ethiosemitic language Gǝʿǝz.
Ronny Meyer
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The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān [PDF]

open access: yes
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC.
Kootstra, Fokelien
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From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond [PDF]

open access: yes
Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek ...

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Eschatology and the Risen Lord: Mary and the Dialogue Gospel Genre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The dialogue gospel was a popular literary genre in early Christianity. Texts include the Apocryphon of John, the Pistis Sophia and the Epistula Apostolurum, all which depict the risen Christ appearing to select disciples and answering a series of ...
PARKHOUSE, SARAH,JANE
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Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia [PDF]

open access: yes
The significance of medieval manuscripts as vehicles for the transmission of knowledge is well known. Less understood, particularly when it comes to non-Latin manuscripts, is the complex web of human interactions that influenced their production and ...

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A Study of Angelology and Community Identity at Qumran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A well-known characteristic of the Qumran sectarian texts is the boast that community membership included fellowship with the angels, but scholars disagree as to the precise meaning of these claims.
Walsh, Matthew
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Muḥammad and His Followers in Context [PDF]

open access: yes
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. The book surveys and analyzes changes in religious groups and identities in late antique Arabia, ca. 300-700 CE.
Lindstedt, Ilkka
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