the Torah
quoted 7 times by 4 works · not held
also in the atlas: The Torah the object
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
7 carried
1 neutralin the voice of Ephrem, Jacob of Serugh, Philoxenus of Mabbug and Theodoret 1 , Jurjī Zaydān 1
quoted by
4 works-
in the voice of Jurjī Zaydān
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ Jurjī Zaydān 4 citations · 9 passages
ch. 3 5 passages anchored here · ch. 4 2 passages anchored here · 4 — totemism among the arabs · ch. 6The Torah is called upon as شهادة, a testimony, which is an explicit appeal to a scriptural authority as evidence.
for all the antiquity of its age, there has come in no text of its texts a passage hinting at mother-right, or indicating its existence, or any trace of its prevalence among the Semites or others, even by way of censure or prohibition or reform.
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in the voice of Ephrem, Jacob of Serugh, Philoxenus of Mabbug and Theodoret
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Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
The citing is done by the reported fathers rather than the author, so the passage identifies a proof-text and the use made of it.
“She who bears a male child shall sit upon the blood forty days, and she who gives birth to a female eighty days” (5), because during those days she is carrying a dead thing devoid of the rational soul.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 citation · 4 passages
Mosaic scripture is quoted repeatedly and treated as the foundational authority behind both biblical and Pythagorean teaching.
Indeed, since the Scripture says, "Let us make man after our image and likeness," I think it worth while to set down also the saying of Eurytus the Pythagorean, which runs thus.
book 5 ¶ -
De Carne Christi Tertullian 1 citation
A legal formula from the Torah is directly quoted as authoritative rule.
"Every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord.
de carne christi ¶
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.