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  2. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    800-400 BCE [2] Vedanta: Later commentary on the Vedas, Brahmanas and Upanishads. Itihasa: Ramayana and Mahabharata are known as the itihasas (‘thus it happened’). present form c.800 BCE for Mahabharata and c.300 BCE for Ramayana Pāli Canon: Essential collections of teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, as written by his followers, three ...

  3. Ancient Hebrew writings - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), [1] if it can be considered Hebrew at that early a stage.

  4. Septuagint manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    The earliest surviving manuscripts of the Septuagint (abbreviated as LXX meaning 70), an ancient (first centuries BCE) translation of the ancient Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek, include three 2nd century BCE fragments from the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (Rahlfs nos. 801, 819, and 957) and five 1st century BCE fragments of Genesis, Exodus ...

  5. Dating the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Book of Amos: first half of the 8th century BCE [68] Book of Obadiah: around the time of the fall of Jerusalem, 586 BCE [25] Book of Jonah: From Persian or Hellenistic period, no later than 2nd century BCE [41] Book of Micah: c. 750–700 BCE [69] Book of Nahum: an "oracle concerning Nineveh", the Assyrian city destroyed in 612 BCE [70]

  6. Brahmi script - Wikipedia

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    Circa 180 BCE. [68] [69] Falk's 1993 book Schrift im Alten Indien is a study on writing in ancient India, [70] [71] and has a section on the origins of Brahmi. [72] It features an extensive review of the literature up to that time. Falk sees the basic writing system of Brahmi as being derived from the Kharoṣṭhī script, itself a derivative ...

  7. Timeline of Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    The following list provides a somewhat common set of reconstructed dates for the terminus ante quem of Hindu texts, by title and genre. It is notable that Hinduism largely followed an oral tradition to pass on knowledge, for which there is no record of historical dates.

  8. Lists of books - Wikipedia

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    List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature; List of books by year of publication; List of children's books made into feature films; List of Christian novels; List of comic books; Lists of dictionaries; Lists of encyclopedias; List of fantasy novels; List of gay male teen novels; List of Glagolitic ...

  9. List of historical fiction by time period - Wikipedia

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    This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...