6 sentences with 'versions'

Example sentences and phrases with the word versions and other words derived from it.

• « In Eastern Europe, small kingdoms and poor farmers welcomed rival missionaries preaching slightly different versions of Christianity. »
• « Charlemagne had defective versions of the Vulgate (the Latin Bible) corrected and revived disciplines of classical learning that had fallen into disuse (including rhetoric, logic and astronomy). »
• « Synthetic versions of the corticosteroid - called steroid drugs - are used to treat a wide variety of diseases, such as asthma and arthritis. However, the latter can dramatically increase vitamin B-6 and C requirements. »
• « Erasmus became completely fluent not only in classical and medieval Latin, but also in New Testament Greek (i.e. most of the earliest New Testament versions of the Bible are written in the vernacular Greek of the first century AD). »
• « The Library of Alexandria was eventually destroyed, although to this day there are competing versions of the blame for its destruction (from the forces of Julius Caesar during his involvement in an Egyptian civil war to Christian or Muslim fanatics centuries later). »
• « Greek and Roman medical ideas, which were largely the basis of medieval understandings of human biology, held that women were essentially inferior versions of men: weaker, less intelligent and with an excess of moist 'humours' (the bodily fluids that were supposed to be the basis of health). »

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