Justice Brennan's opinion especially: I found it the most impressive literary document to come from this Court in a long time.

Thus we have in India three thousand years of continuous linguistic history recorded and preserved in literary documents.

Form criticism: an analysis of literary documents, particularly the Bible, to discover earlier oral traditions (stories, legends, myths, etc.) upon which they were based.

All four gospels, being literary documents some 1,900 years old, suffer from the problems created by handwritten transmissions.

The portion of this translaton which is preserved is the oldest known literary document in any Teutonic language.

It's more a matter of category confusion, a literary document presented as a tourist album.

The oldest literary documents in these related languages, or dialects, are written in Gorani.

It probably is the only literary document from within Dar al-Manasir.

But the period of the earliest available literary document cannot be the sole criterion used to determine the antiquity of a language.

This literary document is meant to express the glory of the great India.