A text of pages bound leaf style, like a modern book—as opposed to a scroll, which has no discrete pages.
A broad, diverse group of nations ruled by the government of a single nation.
Associated with a deity; exhibiting religious importance; set apart from ordinary (i.e. "profane") things.
Textual documents, usually handwritten.
Buildings housing religious renunciates and usually including a space for prayer.
John 8:7
7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”