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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Papyrus

Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that grows to 5 meters (15 ft) in height and was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt. Papyrus is first known to have been used in Ancient Egypt (at least as far back as the First dynasty), but it was also widely used throughout the Mediterranean region, as well as inland parts of Europe and south-west Asia. Papyrus - Etymology. The English word papyrus derives, via Latin, from Greek ...

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Cyperus papyrus Papyrus sedge, also known as Bulrush or Paper reed (Cyperus papyrus) is a monocot belonging to the sedge family Cyperaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial native to Africa. This tall, robust, leafless aquatic can grow 4-5 m high. It features a grass-like clump of triangular green stems that rise up from thick, woody rhizomes. Each stem is topped by a dense cluster of thin, bright green, thread-like rays around 10-30 cm in length. This cluster resembles a feather duster when the plant is young. Greenish-brown flower clusters appear at the ends of the ...

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Papyrus: A Christian Theological Dictionary on Papyrus

A Christian theological definition of Papyrus according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

Papyrus

A plant growing along the Nile in Egypt during biblical times. It was used as writing material. Papyrus scrolls were made by cutting and pressing sections of the papyri plant together at right angles. The typical maximum length of a scroll was about 35 feet. The scribe, when using papyrus, would often use the natural horizontal fibers of the papyrus plant as guidelines. He would take a blunt instrument and score horizontal lines and then score two or more vertical lines as margins for the edge of the sheet or to define columns on it. We get the word "paper" from this word. Many of the biblical manuscripts were on papyrus.
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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Westcar Papyrus

Westcar Papyrus is a document about Khufu, a 4th-Dynasty Egyptian leader, and contains a cycle of five stories about marvels performed by priests. Each of these tales is being told at the court of Khufu by his sons. Other related archivesEgyptian, Khufu

Papyrus: Encyclopedia II - Papyrus - Manufacture and Use

A sheet of papyrus is made from the stem of the plant. The outer rind is first stripped off, and the sticky fibrous inner pith is cut lengthwise into thin strips of about 40 cm long. The strips are then placed side by side on a hard surface, with their edges slightly overlapping, and then another layer of strips is laid on top at a right angle. The strips may have been soaked in water long enough for decomposition to begin, perhaps increasing adhesion, but this is not certain. While still moist, the two layers are hammered together, mashing ...

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Book of Abraham

The Book of Abraham is a text originally published by Joseph Smith, Jr., purporting to be a translation of the writings of Abraham. Some Latter Day Saint denominations, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accept the book as scripture. Other denominations, such as the Community of Christ, and many individuals, consider it to be a work of inspired (or even non-inspired) fiction. Book of Abraham - Origin. The work is based on a set of Egyptian papyri that Joseph Smith obtained in ...

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Ark of bulrushes

The ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was laid (Ex. 2:3) is called in the Hebrew teiva, a word similar to the Egyptian teb, meaning "a chest." It was daubed with slime and with pitch. The bulrushes of which it was made were the papyrus reed. Other related archivesEgyptian, Ex., Hebrew, Moses

Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Wadjet

In Egyptian mythology, Wadjet (also spelt Wadjit, and, in greek, Udjo, Uto, Edjo, an Buto) was originally the local goddess of the city of the same name, Per-Wadjet, named after her, and known as Buto to the Greeks. As the patron goddess, she was associated with the land, and so became considered a snake, usually a cobra, which were omnipresent around the area. Indeed, her name means papyrus c ...

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Copper Scroll

One of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Khirbet Qumran, the Copper Scroll differs significantly from the others. While the others are written on leather or papyrus, this scroll is written on metal, specifically very pure copper mixed with only about 1% tin. Also, unlike the others, it is not a literary work in any way, but contains a listing of locations at which various items of gold and silver are buried or hidden. It is currently on di ...

Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Art of Ancient Egypt

Image:Egypt nefertiti.jpg Ancient Egyptian arts is an art form which is five thousand years old and emerged and took shape in the ancient Egypt, the civilization of the Nile Valley. The ancient Egyptian art, expressed in paintings and sculptures, was highly symbolic and is equally fascinating — this art form revolves round the past which was intended to keep alive the history. In a narrow sense, Ancient Egyptian art refers to the canonical 2D and 3D art developed in Egypt from 3000 BC and used until the 3rd century.

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - 616 number

<< 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 >> 616 (Six hundred sixteen in American English, Six hundred and sixteen elsewhere) may have been the original Number of the Beast in Christian mythology, in the Book of Revelation. Different early versions of the Book of Revelation gave different numbers, and 666 had previously been widely accepted as the oldest and original number. In 2005, however, an early fragment of papyrus was rev ...

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616 number - In mathematics

Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Ahmose

This name may refer to (amongst others): Ahmose I, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and founder of the Eighteenth dynasty. Amasis (also known as Ahmose II), a pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth dynasty. Ahmose, son of Ebana, an ancient Egyptian admiral who served in the Seventeeth and Eighteenth dynasties. Ahmose, an ancient Egyptian scribe of the Second Intermediate Period who copied the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus; historians of mathematics often refer to him as Ahmes, us

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Carsten Peter Thiede

Dr. Carsten Peter Thiede (8 August 1952 West Berlin - 14 December 2004) was a German biblical scholar from the 20th century, best known for his textual criticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the hopeful identification of the 7Q5 papyrus as a fragment of the Gospel of Mark. Thiede was an advocate for O’Callaghan’s claims that numerous portions of the Qumran scrolls from Cave 7 are actually Christian New Testament texts from pre AD 70. The adduced texts are very fragment ...

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Villa of the Papyri

The Villa of the Papyri is an enormous private house of ancient Herculaneum owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, and first excavated in 1765 by Karl Weber. Its name derives from the discovery of a library in the house containing 1,800 carbonized papyrus scrolls. The 800 feet (245 m) long seaside villa sited a few hundred metres from the nearest house in Herculaneum had four levels disposed in a series of terraces on the sloping site and was the most luxurious house in all of Herculaneum and ...

Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Sortes Astrampsychi

The Sortes Astrampsychi (The Lots of Astrampsychus), was a popular Greco-Roman fortune-telling guide written under the pseudonym Astrampsychus. The book contained instructions for throwing lots, the result of which would be used to look up prewritten simple sentences by means of a numerical index. In essence, the procedure was similar to the I Ching. The text is known from a dozen of papyrus fragments, and from a Byzantine codex of the 9th or 10th century. The latter is heavily modified, wit ...

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Yamm

Yamm was the god of oceans, seas, rivers and lakes in several old semitic religions, for instance in Phoenicia, Ancient Egypt and for the Canaanites. According to legend, Yamm was awarded the divine rule over the world by El. Baal, initially destined to become Yamm's servant, refused and challenged Yamm for battle. Baal came out victorious and won the divine kingship. Yamm was mentioned in the old Egyptian Astarte papyrus and might be identical with the old semitic god Lothan. ...

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Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Hypocephalus

A hypocephalus is a small disk-shaped object made of papyrus, stuccoed linen, bronze, gold, wood, or clay, which Egyptians placed under the head of their dead ("hypocephalus" = hypó {Greek: "under, below"} + cephalus {Latin: "head"}). They believed it would magically cause the head and body to be enveloped in flames or radiance, making the deceased divine. Hypocephali symbolized the eye of Ra or Horus, representing the sun, and the scenes portrayed on it relate to the Egyptian concept of the resurrection and life ...

Papyrus: Encyclopedia - Berlin Codex

In 1896, the Coptic Berlin Codex (aka. the Akhmim Codex), given the accession number 8502, (Berolinensis Gnosticus 8502) was unearthed in Akhmim, Egypt. It was a papyrus bound book (a codex), dating to the 5th century, found in the desert and taken to Berlin, where it was finally completely translated in the 1950s. Few people paid attention to it until the 1970s, when it suddenly became very interesting to a new generation of scholars of early Christianity in the wake of the more famous group of early Gnostic Christi ...