) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

This prose Shahnameh was in turn and for the most part the translation of a Pahlavi ( Middle Persian ) work, known as the X < sup > v </ sup > atāynamāk (" Book of Kings "), a late Sassanid compilation of the history of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of Khosrau II ( 590 – 628 ).

Below is transliteration and translation of the first page of the facsimile known as Arda Wiraz Namag or The Book of the Righteous Wiraz, originally written in Pahlavi script .</ center >

The Encyclopedia Iranica renders it as frawahr ( this reflects the Pazend dibacheh form, corresponding to Book Pahlavi prʾwhr ).

* Kassock, Zeke, ( 2012 ), The Book Of Arda Viraf: A Pahlavi Student's 2012 Rendition, Transcription And Translation, ISBN 978-1477603406

The Book of Kells, c. AD 800, is lettered in a script known as " insular majuscule ," a variety of uncial script that originated in Ireland.

The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife.

In the Third Intermediate Period, the Book of the Dead started to appear in hieratic script, as well as in the traditional hieroglyphics.

From the 21st Dynasty onward, more copies of the Book of the Dead are found in hieratic script.

The text of a Book of the Dead was written in both black and red ink, regardless of whether it was in hieroglyphic or hieratic script.

* Séon Carsuel, Bishop of the Isles-Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh, a translation of John Knox's Book of Common Order with some poems and prayers into Classical Gaelic ( printed in Latin script in Edinburgh )

They realised the text was potentially important, but wrongly concluded that it was a transliteration of the Egyptian Book of the Dead in the Arabic script.

The Hunan Provincial Museum notes, " This is called Version A of Book on Silk “ Lao Zi ”, because it was copied out in classical official script.

2 ) is an 8th century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book in insular script minuscule script, with large illuminated initials in the Insular style.

A later added CD audio music featuring the compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and a full voice soundtrack ( although, as a consequence of using Red Book audio for the speech, the dialogue script had to be shortened considerably to fit on the CD-ROM ).

The following year the script won the Script Award in the 2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards.

According to most adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Book of Mormon is a 19th century translation of a record of ancient inhabitants of the American continent, which was written in a script which the book refers to as " reformed Egyptian.

The Malays held the script in high esteem as it is the gateway to understanding Islam and its Holy Book, the Quran.

They are listed in Book of Genesis as second of the twelve Canaanite nations, descended from one Heth ( ḤT in the consonant-only Hebrew script ).

* Fortune and Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Book Story # 1-3 ( script and art, Oni Press, 1999-2000 ) collected as Fortune and Glory: A True Hollywood Comic Book Story ( tpb, 152 pages, 2000, ISBN 1-929998-06-6 ; hc, 160 pages, Icon, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4309-2 )

In May 2008, Miles temporarily posted online a spec script for the TV series entitled " Book of the World ", in a self described attempt to provide a legitimate basis for his polarising criticisms of the production team behind the revived series.

170r of the Book of Ballymote ( 1390 ), the Auraicept na n-Éces explaining the ogham script.

Martin's mother sells Comic Book Guy several items relating to the Star Wars film series including Carrie Fisher's " anti-jiggle breast tape ", George Lucas ' handwritten original script of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and a film of a supposed alternate ending for the series where it is revealed that " Luke's father is Chewbacca.

( Arabic for " The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing ", in Arabic script ' الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة '), also known under a shorter name spelled as Hisab al-jabr w ’ al-muqabala, Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala and other transliterations ) is a mathematical book written in Arabic in approximately AD 820 by the Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate at the time.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

As for The Book of the Dead, it along with his other books on religion had been incarcerated in a furnace in the basement of the building in which he had lived in New York.

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

His name can be read as " son of Ya Sin " ( the title of the 36th Sura of the Qur ' an ), suggesting he had obliterated his family past and was " re-born " of the Holy Book.

They had initially set up wooden statues of Artemis, a bretas, ( Pausanias, ( fl. c. 160 ): Description of Greece, Book I: Attica ).< ref >

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

Dio in his Roman History ( Book I ) confirms this data by telling that Romulus was in his 18th year of age when he had initiated Rome.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

Since Daniel was a statesman during the Persian conquests, the Book of Daniel could have been written in a period when the Persians had their greatest influence on Aramaic, believed to be in the mid 6th century BC.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

The Book of Haggai was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea.

As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.

In 1557, the Scots Protestant lords had adopted the English Prayer Book of 1552, for reformed worship in Scotland.

The last section of the book ( 7: 1 to 9: 8 ), commonly referred to as the Book of Visions, contains the only narrative section.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text not only as scripture but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

* Inverted nun ( only appears twice in the Book of Numbers and seven times in the Book of Psalms )

The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic document in the New Testament canon, though there are short apocalyptic passages in various places in the Gospels and the Epistles.

" The only other Biblical book bearing the name of a woman is the Book of Esther.

In the Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ is the kinsman-redeemer and is the only one worthy to open the seven sealed scroll spoken of in Revelation 5: 1-10.

The cantillation signs for the large poetic section in the middle of the Book of Job differ from those of most of the biblical books, using a system shared with it only by Psalms and Proverbs.

Bodmin is one of the oldest towns in Cornwall, and the only large Cornish settlement recorded in the Domesday Book of the late 11th century.

After Mary's death in 1558, it became the primary source for the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, with subtle if significant changes only.

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

The 1662 prayer book was printed only two years after the restoration of the monarchy, following the Savoy Conference between representative Presbyterians and twelve bishops which was convened by Royal Warrant to " advise upon and review the Book of Common Prayer ".

Nonconformist members and members from constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the majority of English Members of Parliament.

In September 1918, according to The Black Book of Communism, in only twelve provinces of Russia, 48, 735 deserters and 7, 325 " bandits " were arrested, 1, 826 were killed and 2, 230 were executed.

The self-described purpose of Christianity is to provide people with what it holds to be the only valid path to salvation as announced by the apostles of what the Book of Acts describes as, The Way.

This was replaced only five years later by the first " Christadelphian Hymn Book " ( 1869 ), compiled by J. J. and A. Andrew, and this was revised and expanded in 1874, 1932 and 1964.

The number 666 had been identified in the Book of Revelation with the ultimate human despot to rule the world, but who would be replaced by the second coming of the Messiah ; this only added to the belief that the Fifth Monarchy was about to begin.

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

His publication of Psalms, The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations ( Amsterdam, 1612 ), which includes thirty-nine separate monophonic psalm tunes, constituted the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought to New England in 1620 by the Pilgrim settlers.

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

Their religious practices are those of Judaism, but they regard only the written Torah as authoritative scripture ( with a special regard also for the Samaritan Book of Joshua ).