#religious texts

• Anagignoskomena — A theological term used in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition to designate biblical books that are 'good for reading' (known in the West as deuterocanonical, or apocrypha in a Protestant sense), which are not part of the strict Hebrew canon of the Old Testament but are structurally preserved in the Bible due to their outstanding moral, historical, and didactic value. These writings are recommended for the edification of the faithful, although they are not used as a primary dogmatic basis for formulating core doctrines.
• Antologhie — An archaic or regional graphical variant for the term 'anthology'; a compilation gathering selected literary pieces or Byzantine hymns and liturgical texts chosen based on spiritual and aesthetic value. In a Romanian historical context, the term structurally refers to old manuscripts copied in monasteries, where the writings of saints or classical poets were organized into a single volume for study or divine service.
• Assiris — An archaic toponymic or onomastic variant found in old Romanian manuscripts to denote either the empire and historical region of Assyria, or an early phonetic rendering, influenced by the Greco-Byzantine tradition, of the Egyptian god Osiris. It functions as a fixed cultural and historical indicator in medieval religious deeds and registers.
• Avestan — Pertaining to the Avesta, the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia, or to the people who created them; as a masculine noun, it denotes the Avestan language, an extremely important ancient Iranian language of the Indo-European family, closely related to Vedic Sanskrit and used exclusively for liturgical and religious purposes. This idiom represents a fundamental source for the comparative study of Oriental languages and mythologies.