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subject	book bibliographic info
feature, nilus, architectural	Manolaraki (2012) 42
feature, of ancient life, doxography, familiar	Williams (2012) 256
feature, of dystopian apocalypticism, gender, disruption of as	Ashbrook Harvey et al (2015) 173
feature, of nile river, best	Bosak-Schroeder (2020) 51
feature, parallelism, stylistic	Merz and Tieleman (2012) 158, 206
feature, plot, oath as plot	Fletcher (2012) 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 22, 26, 31, 34, 38, 39, 45, 54, 71, 116, 125, 144, 178, 187, 190
feature, signa, onomastic	Bruun and Edmondson (2015) 451, 452
featured, in o my awesome one, are you still distraught?, abraham ibn ezra, male voice	Lieber (2014) 58
featured, in qedushta shir ha-shirim, anonymous, elijah	Lieber (2014) 161, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169
featured, in the anonymous qedushta shir ha-shirim, torah	Lieber (2014) 161, 162, 168, 169, 170, 171
features, ancestry, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 20, 25, 82, 84, 95, 98, 137, 138, 143, 148, 151, 156, 188, 199, 206, 212, 221, 228, 243
features, associations link architecture and architectural to	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021) 119, 120, 255, 257
features, associations position outside of constitutional political	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021) 6, 8
features, at birth, beautiful, noahs	Stuckenbruck (2007) 622, 623, 628, 650
features, consistency, of grammatical	Niehoff (2011) 54
features, culture, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 7, 14, 15, 25, 81, 97, 135, 137, 148, 150, 155, 199, 202, 209, 212
features, customs, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 15, 31, 60, 65, 87, 120, 137, 155, 195, 228
features, essenes, historically verifiable essene	Taylor (2012) 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 342
features, exilarch, persianized	Nikolsky and Ilan (2014) 131
features, historical memories, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 25, 78, 82, 83, 87, 89, 90, 131, 133, 134, 150, 195, 199, 202, 206, 212, 220, 227, 243
features, homeland, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 7, 80, 84, 98, 138, 147, 150, 155, 199, 209, 215, 219, 227, 228, 243
features, inherited	van der EIjk (2005) 265
features, innate, vs. acquired	Jouanna (2012) 169
features, language, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 135, 139, 148, 195, 199, 228
features, multiple sanctifying	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 241, 349
features, of catalogic discourse, key	Folit-Weinberg (2022) 134, 135
features, of circumcision, physical	Lavee (2017) 224, 273, 275
features, of cognition	Mackey (2022) 229
features, of community, four	Kalinowski (2021) 24, 25, 26, 27
features, of day, night/nighttime, replaced by	Ker and Wessels (2020) 1
features, of de abrahamo, unique	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020) 73, 74
features, of demonstration, key	Folit-Weinberg (2022) 1
features, of eye, structures and	Fertik (2019) 68, 69, 70, 72, 73
features, of figural reading, basic	Dawson (2001) 87
features, of geometry, logical	James (2021) 249, 250
features, of his heresiology, martyr, justin distinctive	Boulluec (2022) 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66
features, of hodos, key	Folit-Weinberg (2022) 143
features, of list	Folit-Weinberg (2022) 131
features, of minim stories, in the babylonian talmud, common	Bar Asher Siegal (2018) 3, 4, 25, 43, 187
features, of piyyut, piyyutim, poetic	Lieber (2014) 7, 42
features, of salvation, apocalyptic	Engberg-Pedersen (2010) 10, 11, 12
features, of series	Folit-Weinberg (2022) 131
features, of style of thucydides, general	Joho (2022) 25
features, of temperament, psychological	Jouanna (2012) 247, 249, 258
features, of temple of jerusalem, sabbath, transfer of	Cohen (2010) 246, 247, 248, 249
features, of texts, sensible	Dawson (2001) 237
features, of the laws, mythical	Segev (2017) 81
features, of the world, erga, engineered works, and the distinction between humanmade and natural	Bosak-Schroeder (2020) 32, 33
features, of yotzer shir ha-shirim yotzer or blessing, distinctive	Lieber (2014) 391, 392
features, ovid, hymnal	Miller and Clay (2019) 312
features, proper name, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 5, 78, 83, 86, 88, 91, 94, 96, 129, 132, 135, 139, 148, 153, 156, 191, 192, 194, 196, 200, 205, 207, 210, 216, 222, 227, 243
features, religion, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 83, 84, 193, 199, 200, 228
features, solidarity, ethnicity, common	van Maaren (2022) 7, 14, 195
features, with cultic song, epinikion, shared	Kowalzig (2007) 3, 94, 157, 158, 185, 384, 385
featuring, gods, dreams, in egypt, earliest dreams	Renberg (2017) 33, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86
featuring, incubation, literary and sub-literary works, egypt, greek, possible narrative	Renberg (2017) 99
featuring, local myth, panhellenic ritual	Kowalzig (2007) 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 190, 193, 194, 195, 196, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 207, 208, 209, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 222
featuring, of diet in his ethnographic descriptions, diodorus siculus	Bosak-Schroeder (2020) 92, 93
featuring, prayer to sarapis and isis, dreams, in egypt	Renberg (2017) 622, 623
featuring, priest, thotortaios, son of pachoy, servant at karnak, dream	Renberg (2017) 497, 499, 500, 501
featuring, telesphoros, caracalla, coinage	Renberg (2017) 684

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "features"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 12.14-12.15 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • De Abrahamo, unique features of • ethnicity (common features), ancestry • ethnicity (common features), culture • ethnicity (common features), language • ethnicity (common features), proper name

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020) 74; van Maaren (2022) 148

12.14. וַיְהִי כְּבוֹא אַבְרָם מִצְרָיְמָה וַיִּרְאוּ הַמִּצְרִים אֶת־הָאִשָּׁה כִּי־יָפָה הִוא מְאֹד׃ 12.15. וַיִּרְאוּ אֹתָהּ שָׂרֵי פַרְעֹה וַיְהַלְלוּ אֹתָהּ אֶל־פַּרְעֹה וַתֻּקַּח הָאִשָּׁה בֵּית פַּרְעֹה׃''. None

12.14. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 12.15. And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.''. None

2. Anon., 1 Enoch, 98.2, 104.6 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • ethnicity (common features), proper name • gender, disruption of, as feature of dystopian apocalypticism

Found in books: Ashbrook Harvey et al (2015) 173; van Maaren (2022) 86

98.2. For ye men shall put on more adornments than a woman, And coloured garments more than a virgin: In royalty and in grandeur and in power, And in silver and in gold and in purple, And in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water.
104.6. judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world. And now fear not, ye righteous, when ye see the sinners growing strong and prospering in their ways: be not companions with them,''. None

3. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 9.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • ethnicity (common features), ancestry • ethnicity (common features), homeland • ethnicity (common features), religion • parallelism (stylistic feature)

Found in books: Merz and Tieleman (2012) 158; van Maaren (2022) 84

9.3. Do not go to meet a loose woman,lest you fall into her snares.''. None

4. New Testament, Matthew, 5.18 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Texts, sensible features of • minim stories, in the Babylonian Talmud, common features of

Found in books: Bar Asher Siegal (2018) 43; Dawson (2001) 237

5.18. ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν, ἕως ἂν παρέλθῃ ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ, ἰῶτα ἓν ἢ μία κερέα οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου ἕως ἂν πάντα γένηται.''. None

5.18. For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. ''. None

5. Tacitus, Annals, 15.42 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Nilus, architectural feature • eye, structures and features of

Found in books: Fertik (2019) 69, 70; Manolaraki (2012) 42

15.42. Ceterum Nero usus est patriae ruinis extruxitque domum in qua haud proinde gemmae et aurum miraculo essent, solita pridem et luxu vulgata, quam arva et stagna et in modum solitudinum hinc silvae inde aperta spatia et prospectus, magistris et machinatoribus Severo et Celere, quibus ingenium et audacia erat etiam quae natura denegavisset per artem temptare et viribus principis inludere. namque ab lacu Averno navigabilem fossam usque ad ostia Tiberina depressuros promiserant squalenti litore aut per montis adversos. neque enim aliud umidum gignendis aquis occurrit quam Pomptinae paludes: cetera abrupta aut arentia ac, si perrumpi possent, intolerandus labor nec satis causae. Nero tamen, ut erat incredibilium cupitor, effodere proxima Averno iuga conisus est; manentque vestigia inritae spei.''. None

15.42. \xa0However, Nero turned to account the ruins of his fatherland by building a palace, the marvels of which were to consist not so much in gems and gold, materials long familiar and vulgarized by luxury, as in fields and lakes and the air of solitude given by wooded ground alternating with clear tracts and open landscapes. The architects and engineers were Severus and Celer, who had the ingenuity and the courage to try the force of art even against the veto of nature and to fritter away the resources of a Caesar. They had undertaken to sink a navigable canal running from Lake Avernus to the mouths of the Tiber along a desolate shore or through intervening hills; for the one district along the route moist enough to yield a supply of water is the Pomptine Marsh; the rest being cliff and sand, which could be cut through, if at all, only by intolerable exertions for which no sufficient motive existed. None the less, Nero, with his passion for the incredible, made an effort to tunnel the height nearest the Avernus, and some evidences of that futile ambition survive. <''. None

6. Justin, Dialogue With Trypho, 80.3-80.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Essenes, historically verifiable Essene features • Martyr, Justin, distinctive features of his heresiology

Found in books: Boulluec (2022) 59, 66; Taylor (2012) 197

80.3. The opinion of Justin with regard to the reign of a thousand years. Several Catholics reject it Trypho: I remarked to you sir, that you are very anxious to be safe in all respects, since you cling to the Scriptures. But tell me, do you really admit that this place, Jerusalem, shall be rebuilt; and do you expect your people to be gathered together, and made joyful with Christ and the patriarchs, and the prophets, both the men of our nation, and other proselytes who joined them before your Christ came? Or have you given way, and admitted this in order to have the appearance of worsting us in the controversies? Justin: I am not so miserable a fellow, Trypho, as to say one thing and think another. I admitted to you formerly, that I and many others are of this opinion, and believe that such will take place, as you assuredly are aware; but, on the other hand, I signified to you that many who belong to the pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise. Moreover, I pointed out to you that some who are called Christians, but are godless, impious heretics, teach doctrines that are in every way blasphemous, atheistical, and foolish. But that you may know that I do not say this before you alone, I shall draw up a statement, so far as I can, of all the arguments which have passed between us; in which I shall record myself as admitting the very same things which I admit to you. For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines delivered by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this truth, and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians, even as one, if he would rightly consider it, would not admit that the Sadducees, or similar sects of Genistæ, Meristæ, Galilæans, Hellenists, Pharisees, Baptists, are Jews (do not hear me impatiently when I tell you what I think), but are only called Jews and children of Abraham, worshipping God with the lips, as God Himself declared, but the heart was far from Him. But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, as the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare." "80.4. The opinion of Justin with regard to the reign of a thousand years. Several Catholics reject it Trypho: I remarked to you sir, that you are very anxious to be safe in all respects, since you cling to the Scriptures. But tell me, do you really admit that this place, Jerusalem, shall be rebuilt; and do you expect your people to be gathered together, and made joyful with Christ and the patriarchs, and the prophets, both the men of our nation, and other proselytes who joined them before your Christ came? Or have you given way, and admitted this in order to have the appearance of worsting us in the controversies? Justin: I am not so miserable a fellow, Trypho, as to say one thing and think another. I admitted to you formerly, that I and many others are of this opinion, and believe that such will take place, as you assuredly are aware; but, on the other hand, I signified to you that many who belong to the pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise. Moreover, I pointed out to you that some who are called Christians, but are godless, impious heretics, teach doctrines that are in every way blasphemous, atheistical, and foolish. But that you may know that I do not say this before you alone, I shall draw up a statement, so far as I can, of all the arguments which have passed between us; in which I shall record myself as admitting the very same things which I admit to you. For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines delivered by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this truth, and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians, even as one, if he would rightly consider it, would not admit that the Sadducees, or similar sects of Genistæ, Meristæ, Galilæans, Hellenists, Pharisees, Baptists, are Jews (do not hear me impatiently when I tell you what I think), but are only called Jews and children of Abraham, worshipping God with the lips, as God Himself declared, but the heart was far from Him. But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, as the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare."". None

7. Demosthenes, Orations, 4.49
Tagged with subjects: • epinikion, shared features with cultic song • multiple sanctifying features

Found in books: Kowalzig (2007) 185; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 349

4.49. Truly, men of Athens, I do think that Philip is drunk with the magnitude of his achievements and dreams of further triumphs, when, elated by his success, he finds that there is none to bar his way; but I cannot for a moment believe that he is deliberately acting in such a way that all the fools at Athens know what he is going to do next. For of all fools the rumor-mongers are the worst.''. None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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