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2 results- StudyLamentations: the Study GuideFive funeral-dirges over a fallen city that own the judgment as just and refuse to soften the horror: until the exact center of the book's most intricately ordered poem turns: mercies new every…
- StudyThe Designer's Fingerprint: the mathematics under the textEquidistant letter sequences (ELS), the Genesis 1:1 arithmetic (2701 = 37 × 73), Panin's heptads, and the scribes who counted every letter: the design under the text, shown as exhibits you can check.
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4 results- VoiceAphrahat the Persian SageAphrahat lived and wrote in the Persian Empire, outside Roman territory, in the first half of the fourth century. He wrote in Syriac. He seems never to have read a word of…
- VoiceCommodianCommodian wrote Christian poetry in Latin for people who were never going to read a theologian. Two works survive. The *Instructions* is a set of eighty short poems, each one…
- VoiceRomanos the MelodistRomanos was born about 490 at Emesa in Syria — the city now called Homs. Byzantine sources say his family was Jewish, and that he was baptized as a boy. He served as a deacon…
- VoiceCosmas of MaiumaCosmas was, by the tradition preserved in the Greek church, an orphan taken into the household of John of Damascus's father in Syria and raised alongside John as a brother. The…