The present article covers the results of a study on source texts Saratov edition Zlatostruy (Crysorrhoas) сollection, known in single copy that dates back to end 15th century (Sar. 45). manuscript contains 127 chapters, with first 78 them deriving from readings Zlatostruy. remaining chapters were compiled fragments other collections teachings. One was Izbornik (Florilegium), for Tsar Simeon du...

A review of the seven uses šōṭēr in Deuteronomy and eighteen occurrences elsewhere Hebrew Bible indicates that best translation all cases is “scribe.” By Hellenistic period writing Chronicles, šōṭerîm were classified as Levites, i.e. those “bound” by oath to royal or imperial service but based principle temple, even though, like judges possibly some gate-keepers, many worked “externally.” The t...

In order to analyze this protocol, we will track what “share” of each node j’s number xj is currently contributing to each node’s sum si. So we look at a vector ~vi, in which the j component vi,j denotes the fraction of node j’s value that currently is part of node i’s sum. This means that initially, we have vi,i = 1 for all i, and vi,j = 0 for all i 6= j. In this view, our protocol can be expr...

Recent years have seen rapid advancement in our understanding of the phonology and grammar of Classic Ch’olan and the distribution of Lowland Mayan languages in the Classic period. The control over the data has advanced to such an extent that Classic Ch’olan should no longer be considered chiefly a product of reconstruction, but rather a language in its own right, providing fresh input to histo...

Witnesses of medieval literary texts, preserved in manuscript, are layered objects, being almost exclusively copies of copies. This results in multiple and hard to distinguish linguistic strata – the author’s scripta interacting with the scriptae of the various scribes – in a context where literary written language is already a dialectal hybrid. Moreover, no single linguistic phenomenon allows ...