The legal writings used are called Institutional Texts and come mostly from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

* Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, including Vulgates, Breviaries, Contracts, and Herbal Texts from 12-17th century, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

In 1973, archeologists discovered copies of early Chinese books, known as the Mawangdui Silk Texts, in a tomb dating from 168 BC.

The Pyramid Texts from ancient Egypt are one of the oldest known religious texts in the world dating to between 2400-2300 BCE.

Scholars contend that Irenaeus quotes from 21 of the 27 New Testament Texts:

* Yiannopoulos, A. N., The Civil Codes of Louisiana ( reprinted from Civil Law System: Louisiana and Comparative law, A Coursebook: Texts, Cases and Materials, 3d Edition ; similar to version in preface to Louisiana Civil Code, ed.

* Sacred Texts: Judaism: Tales and Maxims from the Midrash extracted and translated by Samuel Rapaport, 1908.

Texts from the Hellenistic period and later offered an eponymous Ninus as the founder of Nineveh, although there is no historical basis for this.

Most information we have on the myths of Osiris is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, later New Kingdom source documents such as the Shabaka Stone and the Contending of Horus and Seth, and much later, in narrative style from the writings of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.

* Vatican II Texts from the Vatican

* Vatican II Texts from the Eternal Word Television Network

* Vatican II Texts from Christus Rex

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

The Talmud derives this from a calculation based on Biblical Texts.

For this reason he was sometimes connected with navigation, although early references call him the great runner, as below from Spell 521 of the Coffin Texts.

The same elements from the myth that appear in the Pyramid Texts recur in funerary texts written in later times, such as the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ) and the Book of the Dead from the New Kingdom ( c. 1550 – 1070 BC ).

Texts related to Osirian rituals come from the walls of Egyptian temples that date from the New Kingdom to the Ptolemaic era of 323 – 30 BC.

Texts from Ugarit also refer to an individual Canaanite (* kn ' ny ), suggesting that the Semitic people of Ugarit, contrary to much modern opinion, considered themselves to be non-Canaanite.

* Amy G. Remensnyder, " The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

* Susan P. Millinger, " Epic Values: The Song of Roland ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

In the Middle Kingdom, a new funerary text emerged, the Coffin Texts.

* A collection of Dunbar's works at ' TEAMS Middle English Texts '

Series: TEAMS Middle English Texts.

* Witalisz, Wladislaw, " Authority and the Female Voice in Middle English Mystical Writings: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe ," in: Homo Narrans: Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz, ed.

* c. 2000 BC: First known mention of the city ( then known as Rusalimum ) in the Middle Kingdom Egyptian Execration Texts.

The first known mention of the city was in c. 2000BC in the Middle Kingdom Egyptian Execration Texts in which the city was recorded as Rusalimum.

* Adnan Husain, " Wondrous Crusade Encounters: Usamah ibn Munqidh's Book of Learning by Example ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

In 2001, BYU consolidated FARMS with the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts ( CPART ) and the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative ( METI ) to form the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts ( ISPART ).

The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative consists of three sections: the Islamic Translation Series, the Eastern Christian Texts, and the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides.

The head editor of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative is Daniel C. Peterson.

* The Middle English Lais at TEAMS Middle English Texts

* Consideratcaravanserai. net, Texts and photos on research on caravanserais and travel journeys in Middle East and Central Asia.

* Asmussen, Jes Peter, comp., Manichaean Literature: Representative Texts, Chiefly from Middle Persian and Parthian Writings, 1975, Scholars ' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1141-4.

* Nancy Partner, " Richard of Devizes: The Monk Who Forgot to be Medieval ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

* Middle East Official Texts on the United States Embassy official site ( Hyperlinks ; see Ongoing Peace Efforts 1998 ( Archived documents )

* Jason Glenn, " Two Lives of Saint Radegund ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

A myth about the Eye, known from allusions in the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ) and a more complete account in the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus from the Late Period ( 664 – 332 BC ), demonstrates the Eye's close connection with Ra and Atum and her ability to act independently.

In time, the Pyramid Texts became Coffin Texts ( perhaps after the end of the Old Kingdom ), and finally the mortuary literature produced its masterpiece, the Book of the Dead, during the New Kingdom.

However, Jaromir Malek considers " the main innovation of Unas ' pyramid, and one that was to be characteristic of the remaining pyramids of the Old Kingdom ( including some of the queens ), was the first appearance of the Pyramid Texts ".

He is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, in which he is depicted in a fierce aspect, but he does not rise to prominence until the New Kingdom, when he is described as the " Greatest God of the Great Gods ".

She is also mentioned in the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts as protecting the sun god Re from poisonous snakes .< ref > Wilkinson, Richard H. < cite > The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt </ cite >.

Towards the end of the Old Kingdom, the Pyramid Texts ceased to be an exclusively royal privilege, and were adopted by regional governors and other high-ranking officials.

Dated Texts of the Old Kingdom, SAK 21, ( 1994 ), pp. 307 – 308

* A Survey of the New Kingdom Non-literary Texts from Deir el-Medina-Leiden University ( Database )

During the Old Kingdom, only the pharaoh had access to this material, which scholars refer to as the Pyramid Texts.

In the First Intermediate Period and in the Middle Kingdom, some of the Pyramid Text spells also are found in burial chambers of high officials and on many coffins, where they begin to evolve into what scholars call the Coffin Texts.

Middle Kingdom sarcophagus with the Coffin Texts painted on its panels

The Pyramid Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the time of the Old Kingdom.