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.

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.

Texts from patristic authors before 325 AD are collected in the Ante-Nicene Fathers.

Texts from patristic authors after 325 AD are collected in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.

In 1913, two of Berg's Five Songs on Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg ( 1912 ) were premièred in Vienna, conducted by Schoenberg.

He played a primary role in the Coffin Texts, which were spells intended to help the deceased reach the realm of the afterlife safely.

Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were generally left unpunctuated until the modern era.

However, if the ka was not properly prepared, this journey could be fraught with dangerous pitfalls and strange demons ; hence some of the earliest religious texts discovered, such as the Papyrus of Ani ( commonly known as The Book of the Dead ) and the Pyramid Texts were actually written as guides to help the deceased successfully navigate the duat.

Some of the earliest Han maps discovered were ink-penned silk maps found amongst the Mawangdui Silk Texts in a 2nd-century-BCE tomb.

As the Osiris myth first appears in the Pyramid Texts, most of its essential features must have taken shape sometime before the texts were written.

The two stories were joined into the single Osiris myth sometime before the writing of the Pyramid Texts.

Texts were then edited and rewritten as required, and the Syndicate approved and had all final books published under the Syndicate's name.

Textual variants found in the Abisha scroll were published in 1959 by Federico Pérez Castro and between 1961 and 1965 by A. and R. Sadaqa in Jewish and Samaritan Versions of the Pentateuch-With Particular Stress on the Differences Between Both Texts.

The last written records in Akkadian were Astrological Texts dating from 78 AD discovered in Assyria.

Both the corridor and the walls of the burial chamber were inscribed with the last known instance of the Pyramid Texts.

Texts that dominated this course were by Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna.

According to the Pyramid Texts, Nephthys, along with Isis, was a force before whom demons trembled in fear, and whose magical spells were necessary for navigating the various levels of Duat, as the region of the afterlife was termed.

The Book of the Dead and Coffin Texts were intended to guide people who had recently died through the Duats dangerous landscape and to a life as an akh or blessed spirit amongst the gods.

Egyptian funerary literature ( such as the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead ) were intended to aid the deceased in " not dying a second time " and becoming an akh.

Texts were no longer precious and expensive to produce — they could be cheaply and rapidly put into the marketplace.

The Blickling Homilies were first edited and translated in the 19th century by Richard Morris ( Early English Texts Society ).

The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, which were painted onto objects, not papyrus.

The first funerary texts were the Pyramid Texts, first used in the Pyramid of King Unas of the 5th dynasty, around 2400 BC.

The Pyramid Texts were written in an unusual hieroglyphic style ; many of the hieroglyphs representing humans or animals were left incomplete or drawn mutilated, most likely to prevent them causing any harm to the dead pharaoh.

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.

The Coffin Texts were most commonly written on the inner surfaces of coffins, though they are occasionally found on tomb walls or on papyri.

The Coffin Texts were available to wealthy private individuals, vastly increasing the number of people who could expect to participate in the afterlife ; a process which has been described as the " democratization of the afterlife ".

The Muhammadan Period ; by Sir H. M. Elliot ; Edited by John Dowson ; London Trubner Company 1867 – 1877-This online Copy has been posted by: The Packard Humanities Institute ; Persian Texts in Translation ; Also find other historical books: Author List and Title List )

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran, is also the author of 3: 16 Bible Texts Illuminated, in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book.

In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe.

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

* Jacobi an Fichte, German Text ( 1799 / 1816 ), with Introduction and Critical Apparatus by Marco Ivaldo and Ariberto Acerbi ( Introduction, German Text, Italian Translation, 3 Appendices with Jacobi's and Fichte's complementary Texts, Philological Notes, Commentary, Bibliography, Index ): Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici-Press, Naples 2011, ISBN 978-88-905957-5-2.

Image: Sun Quan Tang. jpg | Emperor Sun Quan in the Thirteen Emperors Scroll and Northern Qi Scholars Collating Classic Texts, by Yan Liben ( c. 600-673 AD ), Chinese

* The Lied and Art Song Texts Page created and maintained by Emily Ezust Texts of the Lieder of Brahms with translations in various languages.

*" Some Texts Revealed by Bahá ' u ' lláh "

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

On June 11, 2011, the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts issued a statement regarding episcopal consecrations in China, saying that the penalty of excommunication imposed by law on those who consecrate or are consecrated without a papal mandate " must be tempered or a penance employed in its place " when those involved in the intrinsically evil act are " coerced by grave fear, even if only relatively grave, or due to necessity or grave inconvenience ".

The Buddha the Pali Texts allowed Sangha members to eat whatever food is donated to them by laypeople, except that they may not eat meat if they know or suspect the animal was killed specifically for them.

Termas ( Treasury Texts ) are texts composed by great Lamas ; but which are hidden away and occulted to everybody, because that is not the time for the text to be revealed.

If so, they must have begun to coalesce into a single story by the time of the Pyramid Texts, which loosely connect those segments.

Texts in the Hurrian language have been found at Hattusa, Ugarit ( Ras Shamra ), as well as one of the longest of the Amarna letters, written by King Tushratta of Mitanni to Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

* ( 2010 ): " Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts ", edited by Robert Twombly, WW Norton & Company, New York.

* The Lied and Art Song Texts Page List of the musical settings for most of Berlioz's major works, with translations into various languages, as maintained by Emily Ezust

The corpus of an ancient city, ( for example the " Kültepe Texts " of Turkey ), may go through a series of corpora, determined by their find site dates.