The Mini Codex


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Have you ever looked at one of your miniatures and said: "Dang, this thing is looking sharp! If only there was some way I could easily note the process that made it look so good..." Well now there is!All jokes aside, this is the journal you've been looking for. Since we all live in the digital age, we've grown accustomed to taking photos of our painstakingly painted minis, posting them online, and waiting for like. Well, though there is definitely a place for that (I do it all the time) I've always been more interested in "tangible" products, things I can hold in my hand or put up on my shelf; and since we're all in the same hobby, I bet that I'm not the only one. That's where The Miniature Codex comes in!This is a product that I've been using for years to catalogue my hobby journey. The 6x9 journal is the perfect size for all of your hobby painting needs! You can take it with you wherever you go, or you can set it on the shelf among your collection for future reference or as a way to show off your past work. Each page has a designated place for a 4x6 photo and plenty of room for notes about: the paints used, process, techniques, and even some lore for custom made chapters. Though this is a product I made with tabletop gaming in mind, it works for all WARGAMING and MINIATURE PAINTING. Once you purchase this journal you will also be able to email us and we'll send you back the digital powerpoint version for free! If you want to place bulk orders don't hesitate to reach out and we will make it happen! This is a great gift for the gamer in your life, for birthdays, christmas, anniversaries and more! I've used this journal for historical wargaming, science ficiton wargaming, grimdark wargaming, Native American miniatures, Indian miniatures, European miniatures, WWI miniatures, WWI miniatures, etc...




Ancient Education and Early Christianity


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What was the relationship of ancient education to early Christianity? This volume provides an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars who draw upon educational settings in the ancient world to inform their historical research in Christian origins. The book is divided into two sections: one consisting of essays on education in the ancient world, and one consisting of exegetical studies dealing with various passages where motifs emerging from ancient educational culture provide illumination. The chapters summarize the state of the discussion on ancient education in classical and biblical studies, examine obstacles to arriving at a comprehensive theory of early Christianity's relationship to ancient education, compare different approaches, and compile the diverse methodologies into one comparative study. Several educational motifs are integrated in order to demonstrate the exegetical insights that they may yield when utilized in New Testament historical investigation and interpretation.




Forbidden Oracles?


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"This book centers on The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, a previously unknown text preserved in a fifth- or sixth-century Coptic miniature codex. It presents the first critical edition and translation of this new text. My book is also a project about religious praxis and authority, as I situate the manuscript within the context of practices of and debates around divination in the ancient Mediterranean world."--Preface, p. [vii].




Codex


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Aeldari: Waning and scattered as they are, the sundered fragments of an empire that drowned in its own perversity and decadence. Yet woe betide those who think them weak. They are as shrewd as they are fickle, as disciplined as they are capricious. They read the skeins of fate as if they are letters on a page. They handle the blade as if they were born to do nothing else. They fight for their survivial and see all other species as irrevocably inferior, or even as vermin. To underestimate them means death.




Miniature Books


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This volume addresses miniature books with a special focus on religious books in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The book presents various empirical contexts for how the smallest books have been produced, distributed, and used in different times and cultures.




Ex-foliations


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Terry Harpold offers a sophisticated consideration of technologies of reading in the digital age.




Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture


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In "Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture," Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts.




Federal Register


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Manual of Screeners for Dementia


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This book draws on the author’s experience in conducting pragmatic test accuracy studies on screening instruments for dementia/mild cognitive impairment. To facilitate comprehension and assimilation, all data is presented in an easily accessible, succinct and user-friendly way by means of a structured tabular format that allows tests to be easily compared. The pragmatic design of studies ensures high external validity and generalizability for the test results. The book includes a wealth of data on previously presented studies, as well as hitherto unreported test measures (“Number needed” metrics). It presents recently described and new diagnostic metrics (Likelihood to be diagnosed or misdiagnosed; Summary utility index; Number needed for screening utility); data from new studies on screeners (Attended with sign; Free-Cog; Two question depression screener; Jenkins Sleep Questionnaire; Triple test); and previously unpublished data (combination of SMC Likert and MACE; IADL Scale and MMSE). Given its scope, the book will be of interest to all professionals, beginners and seasoned experts alike, whose work involves the assessment of individuals with cognitive (memory) complaints.




The Aleppo Codex


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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.