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Cultural contacts and ethnic origins in Viking Age Wales and northern Britain: the case of Albanus, Britain's first inhabitant and Scottish ancestor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Albanus, an eponymous ancestor for the kingdom of Alba, provides an example of the extent to which the creation of an ethnic identity was accompanied by new ideas about origins, which replaced previous accounts.
Evans, Nicholas J.
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The Earthly Essene Nucleus of 1QSA [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This article makes the case that the regulations for communal life in the central portions of 1QSa are much more closely related to the Damascus Document than to the Rule of the Community to which the text was physically attached.
Hempel, Charlotte
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The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films.
Hijjas, Mulaika
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Comital Ireland, 1333–1534 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The history of late-medieval Ireland is not exactly littered with dates that command general recognition, so it is surely suggestive that two which have achieved a degree of notoriety concern the fortunes, or rather misfortunes, of Ireland’s earls and ...
Peter Crooks
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Glorification through Fear in \u3cem\u3e2 Enoch\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article explores the imagery of fear found in 2 Enoch and its significance for the glorious transformations that Enoch undergoes during his heavenly journey.
Orlov, Andrei
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From manuscript catalogues to a handbook of Syriac literature: Modeling an infrastructure for Syriaca.org [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Despite increasing interest in Syriac studies and growing digital availability of Syriac texts, there is currently no up-to-date infrastructure for discovering, identifying, classifying, and referencing works of Syriac literature.
Gibson, Nathan P.   +2 more
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