The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0995494606 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Along with the portraits of holy figures, a set of written tables of the canon grip the eye in a doorway of sumptuous majesty. Sahner, Marginalia Review of Books. "These gospels had been overlooked by scholars, who took them for medieval copies. She perceptively compared them with the Syriac Rabbula Gospels of 586 in Florence. The volume is a landmark in early Christian studies and in late antique art history." --Jas Elsner, University of Oxford "How many movable objects have been in use ever since late Antiquity, in the same place they were produced? The battered and well-thumbed Garima Gospels may never have left the sequestered Ethiopian monastery where they still reside -- and which no woman may enter. Judith McKenzie (with her colleagues) takes the reader through this scholarl
As this work shows, their artwork is closely related to Syriac, Armenian, Greek, and Georgian gospel books and to the art of late antique (Coptic) Egypt, Nubia, and Himyar (Yemen). They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, in the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia as well as in the Christian East. The Garima texts and decoration demonstrate how a distinctive Christian culture developed in Aksumite Ethiopia, while also belonging to the mainstream late antique Mediterranean world. It will be an essential resource for those studying late antique art and history, Ethiopia, eastern Christianity, New Testament textual criticism, and illuminated books.. Lavishly illustrated in colour, t
She lived in a cave while working on The Architecture of Petra (1990), the rock-cut capital of the Nabataeans in Jordan. Her other books include The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, 300BC-AD700 (2007) and on the sculpture and religious practice at The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et-Tannur (2 vols, 2013). She is
Three Stars Mr. X Does not contain translations. Only discussions about. An additional visual source I'm not sure what I expected after reading the NYRoB. The data is interesting and it does dove tail, in some degree, to The Crucible of Islam