The Codex

The Codex

Author: Douglas Preston

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-04

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780765346292

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Greetings from the dead, declares Maxwell on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance.


Mormon's Codex

Mormon's Codex

Author: John L. Sorenson

Publisher: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship Deseret Book

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 826

ISBN-13: 9781609073992

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The author demonstrates that the Book of Mormon is a native Mesoamerican book (or codex) that exhibits what one would expect of a historical document produced in the context of ancient Mesoamerican civilization. He also shows that scholars' discoveries about Mesoamerica and the contents of the Nephite record are clearly related, listing more than 400 points where the Book of Mormon text corresponds to characteristic Mesoamerican situations, statements, allusions, and history.


The Constantine Codex

The Constantine Codex

Author: Paul Maier

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2011-05-23

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1414360525

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Harvard Professor Jonathan Weber is finally enjoying a season of peace when a shocking discovery thrusts him into the national spotlight once again. While touring monasteries in Greece, Jon and his wife Shannon—a seasoned archaeologist—uncover an ancient biblical manuscript containing the lost ending of Mark and an additional book of the Bible. If proven authentic, the codex could forever change the way the world views the holy Word of God. As Jon and Shannon work to validate their find, it soon becomes clear that there are powerful forces who don’t want the codex to go public. When it’s stolen en route to America, Jon and Shannon are swept into a deadly race to find the manuscript and confirm its authenticity before it’s lost forever.


The Aleppo Codex

The Aleppo Codex

Author: Matti Friedman

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 161620270X

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Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex. Journalist Matti Friedman’s true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It’s a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.


Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus

Author: British Library

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780712349987

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Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole Bible. No other early manuscript of the Christian Bible has been so extensively corrected, and the significance of Codex Sinaiticus for the reconstruction of the Christian Bible's original text, the history of the Bible and the history of western book making is immense. Since 2002, a major international project has been creating an electronic version of the manuscript. This magnificent printed facsimile reunites the text, now divided between the British Library, the National Library of Russia, St Catherine's Monastery, Mt Sinai and Leipzig University Library.


The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity

Author: Georgios Boudalis

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781941792124

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The innovation of the codex in late antiquity -- The wooden tablet codex -- The single gathering codex -- The multigathering codex : an introduction -- Sewing the gatherings -- Boards and their attachment -- Spine linings -- Endbands -- Covers and their decoration -- Fastenings -- Bookmarks and board corner straps


Codex

Codex

Author: Lev Grossman

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-05-31

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1446474127

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A long lost library. A priceless manuscript. A deadly secret... About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a young hot-shot banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When asked to unpack and organise a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to intrigue as he realises that among the volumes there may be hidden a unique medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Edward's intrigue becomes an obsession that only deepens as friends draw him into a peculiar and addictive computer game, as mystifying parallels between the game's virtual reality and the legend of the codex emerge and the lines between reality, fantasy and mysterious legend start to blur ...


The Lost Codex

The Lost Codex

Author: Alan Jacobson

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1504003624

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In this “brilliant” thriller from the USA Today–bestselling author, ancient biblical documents are at the center of a devastating terrorist threat (Jeffery Deaver). In 930 CE, a revered group of scholars pens the first sanctioned Bible, planting the seed from which other major religions will grow. But in 1953, half the manuscript goes missing while being transported from Syria. Around the same time, in the foothills of the Dead Sea, an ancient scroll is discovered—and promptly stolen. Six decades later, both parchments stand at the heart of a geopolitical battle between foreign governments and radical extremists, threatening the lives of millions. With the American homeland under siege, the president turns to a team of uniquely trained covert operatives including FBI profiler Karen Vail, Special Forces veteran Hector DeSantos, and FBI terrorism expert Aaron Uziel. Their mission: Find the stolen documents and capture—or kill—those responsible for unleashing a coordinated and unprecedented terrorist attack on US soil. Set in DC, New York, Paris, England, and Israel, The Lost Codex has been hailed by Douglas Preston as “a masterwork of international suspense” and “an outstanding novel."


Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)

Publisher: Scala Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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A unique interpretation of one of the most important pieces of scholarly material in existence.


The Search for Gram

The Search for Gram

Author: Chris Kennedy

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781942936206

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Lieutenant Commander Shawn "Calvin" Hobbs saved Seattle, traveled to the stars and forged new alliances with alien races. With the latest war concluded, it was time to try to decipher the strange rod an ancient alien civilization gave him as a test. Was a little "down" time to work on the project too much to hope for?Yes.Something or someone is destroying the starships of the alien Aesir race. The elven Aesir are in need of help, and all of the signs point to Calvin as the hero they need. He has already defeated the merciless Drakuls and saved Earth from alien invasion, but is he prepared to face this unknown challenge?As the Theogony trilogy comes to a close, a new chapter for Calvin is set to begin. "The Search for Gram" initiates the "Codex Regius," a trilogy that will once again take Lieutenant Commander Hobbs and his Special Forces platoon to the stars. Not even the universe can hold him this time!