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Scholars identified among the manuscripts a full text of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habakkuk, a collection of hymns, a scroll tentatively thought to be the Book of Lamech, a heretofore unknown work called the War of the Children of Light Against the Children of Darkness. The manuscripts apparently dated back to the second or third century B.C. and antedated the oldest existing Hebrew Biblical manuscript (Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus, A.D. 916) by more than a thousand years...
Congratulations on your June 13 book review of Calvin Hoffman's tale regarding Shakespeare. Seldom has a more ridiculous manuscript found its way into print...
Pulling a manuscript from one pocket and glasses from another, he planted his feet widely and started reading in his loud, cocky miner's voice. "Dear Comrade Tito . . . and leaders of the Yugoslav Communist League," he bawled. Instantly, Tito's handsome features froze...
...next published a two-volume work on Philo (in 1947), which are the second volumes in the series. The third set on the Church Fathers, after a seven-year delay for revision, is now at the press, while the material for other books lies squeezed in two large manuscript filled filing cabinets at one end of the room. This series, together with his project of publishing Averroes' commentaries on Aristotle in three languages (which should fill a hundred volumes when completed) along with many articles constitute the core of Wolfson's work...
There is a widespread academic tendency to pass off Thomas Wolfe as an undisciplined child, as "wild little Tommy." When Wolfe is discussed, inevitably the conversation turns on the fact that he could manage to scrawl only three giant, illegible words on a page of manuscript, or to the fact that he sent off four orange-crates of novel to his publisher. In Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has attempted to approach the author and his works intelligently, and to treat them as something besides a gigantic, but insignificant, oddity...