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catena

form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow the whole to form a continuous commentary
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catena

Summary

catena ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (40 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • catena's subclass of is recorded as Biblical commentary[2].
  • catena's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04jhs3n[3].
  • catena's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[4].
  • catena's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • catena's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/catenae[6].
  • catena's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2052547[7].
  • catena's Catholic Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 03434a[8].
  • catena's Orthodox Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 1681377[9].
  • catena's TDKIV term ID is recorded as 000014972[10].
  • catena's Patristic Text Archive author ID is recorded as pta0099[11].
  • catena's TDKIV Wikibase ID is recorded as Callisto[12].

Why It Matters

catena ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (40 views/month).[1] catena has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] catena is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Wikibase TDKIV. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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