Abstract This article identifies the personalities and circumstances behind two previously unknown heterodox religious publishing projects of seventeenth century. The first was based in Leiden United Provinces, while second originated Dresden Electoral Saxony. project likely led by German jurist Johann Angelius Werdenhagen, who 1628 had Jacob Böhme’s Weg zu Christo Anna Ovena Hoyer’s Gespräch E...

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This contribution discusses the ways in which Hebrew prophets Greek and Latin translations were received by Christians from second to fifth centuries CE, preceded an impression of New Testament use these prophets. Besides vast amount ecclesiastical references commentaries, it also deals with Marcionite Gnostic views. It demonstrates that most often read as testimonies Christ communities those w...

I offer evidence for a syllable-counting but non-isosyllabic meter, with lines in groups of 2-3, forming semantic units. Within these groups, the average difference in syllable count between lines is significantly lower than it is between non-grouped lines. The similarity within groups of lines suggests that, despite apparent differences based on the orthography, lines within groups may have ma...