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01-13-2006, 03:44 PM | #21 |
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Ulpian's De Officio Proconsulis, an early third-century compendium of Roman criminal law. I would particularly like to see volume VII with the rescripts regarding Christians.
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They Wrote That He Had An Appointment With Destiny
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Jesus' Appointment Book for Nissan ourbah-ehsray to shiva-ehsray. Joseph "There are those that are born great, those that achieve greatness and those that have greatness thrust upon them." - The Gospel of Shakespeare http://www.errancywiki.com/index.php/Main_Page |
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My list was blogged here and it includes:
1. Clement of Alexandria, Hypotyposeis 2. Papias of Hierapolis, Exegeses of the Lord's Oracles 3. Hegesippus, Hypomnemata 4. Tatian, original (Syriac?) text of the Diatessaron 5. Justin martyr, Syntagma Stephen |
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All the stuff Shakespeare through in the trash basket.
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Porphyry's Against the Christians.
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Probably doesn't count as downright ancient, but some of the journals kept by Lewis and Clark on their expedition did not survive.
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An unabridged Etruscan-Latin dictionary, the first draft of the Havamal, and one of everything that was lost from the the Library of Alexandria.
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In the same spirit as the above, I wish we had Claudius's Etruscan and Carthaginian histories. Not only would it yield a lot of useful information, but it would give a lot of insight into the personality of one of the more interesting emperors.
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The original gospels and the the documents used by the redactors of the Penteauch and Samuel-Kings-Chronicles.
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