11. 1. Murder among themselves was a thing of everyday occurrence, and desperate robberies, committed upon the They were provided courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The exhibit captions and translations (below) provide background on the fragments and their relationships with the other Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran Community, and its Library. 00274) and Vajrayâna texts (Ch. Mesopotamia was home to a great number of private libraries, many with extensive collections of over 400 tablets.

These scroll fragments were displayed in the exhibit at the Library of Congress, May - August 1993. 2. The nucleus of these private libraries were primarily texts which had been transcribed by the proprietors themselves from the time they acquired their education in the art of the scribe.

For more information, contact the Cave City branch of the Sharp County Library System at (870) 283-6947. Single-outlet libraries are a central library, bookmobile, or books-by-mail-only outlet. The Library Cave (Cave 17), which was unsealed by Wang Yuanlu, contained nearly 50,000 ancient manuscripts, silk banners and paintings, fine silk embroideries and other rare textiles dating from before the early 1000s, when this cave and all its contents were concealed for reasons still unknown.

The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the "Chenoboskion Manuscripts" and the "Gnostic Gospels") is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.. Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman.
Discovering Sacred Texts provides access to the richness and diversity of the texts from some of the world’s greatest faiths. The Egyptians were in those days of a much darker character than the remnants of their descendants, which, in spite of press-gangs and justice-warrants, still linger amongst us. The Dunhuang manuscripts are a cache of important religious and secular documents discovered in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, in the early 20th century.Dating from late 4th to early 11th centuries, the manuscripts include works ranging from history and mathematics to folk songs and dance. Discover more about the sacred texts from Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and the Baha’i Faith, Jainism and Zoroastrianism. The Theoi Greek Mythology Website (www.theoi.com) was compiled several years before the creation of this online library and in many cases quotes from different translations.It also draws on a considerably wider selection of classical literature. The arrangement of documents in this library cave suggests that they were deliberately stored there, and it seems likely that the local monasteries used the cave as a store room. The translation is from Teiser 1994. More than 50,000 manuscripts dated between the fourth and eleventh centuries were found inside the cave.

Using carved wooden blocks, the book was printed onto strips of paper that were then pasted together to form a scroll.

Efforts are now underway to reconstitute the Library Cave manuscripts digitally, and they are now available as part of