The Torah, which Moses wrote 3300 years ago. The oldest surviving scrolls date back over 2000 years.
It became works of art because they became more interesting and fancy to look at.
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Typically, works of Colonial literature tended to focus on either true accounts of actual events, or works that were intended to glorify God. Some of the notable writers of that time were Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards.
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_______ are some of the world's oldest surviving religious works.
The Torah, which Moses wrote 3300 years ago. The oldest surviving scrolls date back over 2000 years.
The Torah, which Moses wrote 3300 years ago. The oldest surviving scrolls date back over 2000 years.
the vedas
The Torah, which Moses wrote 3300 years ago. The oldest surviving scrolls date back over 2000 years.
the vedas
the worlds oldest man is 105 years old and of course he still works he has also been on the weakest link last year in 2009
A:The oldest definably religious works are probably some of the cave paintings of Europe, dating back around 30,000 years ago. They were at first thought to have been merely secular paintings, produced in idle time or to explain and teach the young. However, archaeologists noticed certain pecularities such as an exact orientation to the rising sun and some patterns formed by the positions of paintings, and decided that the artists were priests and these paintings represented religious stories.
No, Beowulf is actually classified as an epic poem, the oldest surviving epic poem of Anglo-Saxson tradition.
The Tholkappiam is an ancient Tamil grammar text attributed to the author Tholkappiyar. It is considered one of the oldest surviving works on Tamil grammar and linguistics.
One of the oldest written stories is the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Mesopotamian poem dating back to around 2100 BC. It is considered one of the earliest surviving works of literature and tells the tale of King Gilgamesh's quest for immortality.
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