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The World's Oldest Church : Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria
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Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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Michael Peppard provides a historical and theological reassessment of the oldest Christian building ever discovered, the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos. Contrary to commonly held assumptions about Christian initiation, Peppard contends that rituals here did not primarily embody notions of death and resurrection. Rather, he portrays the motifs of the church's wall paintings as those of empowerment, healing, marriage, and incarnation, while boldly reidentifying the figure of a woman formerly believed to be a repentant sinner as the Virgin Mary. This richly illustrated volume is a breakthrough work that enhances our understanding of early Christianity at the nexus of Bible, art, and ritual.

The invisible God : the earliest Christians on art
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ISBN: 1280443413 9786610443413 0195359569 1423758544 0585181462 9780585181462 9781423758549 6610443416 0195113810 0195082524 9780195082524 9781280443411 0197739644 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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This treatise refutes the assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus did not produce art. It shows that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they started to produce art as decoration.

Through a glass brightly : studies in Byzantine and medieval art and archaeology presented to David Buckton
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ISBN: 1785702734 9781785702723 1785702726 9781785702730 1842170902 9781842170908 9781785702518 1785702513 1785702742 9781785702747 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : Oxbow Books,

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The apostles in early Christian art and poetry
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ISSN: 0920623X ISBN: 9789004298040 9004298045 9789004309746 9004309748 Year: 2016 Volume: 134 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill,

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The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry presents the first in-depth analysis of the origins of the representation of the apostles (the twelve disciples and Paul) in verse and image in the late antique Greco-Roman world (250-400). Especially in the West, the apostles are omnipresent, in particular on sarcophagi and in Biblical and martyr poetry. They primarily function as witnesses of Christ’s stay on earth, but Peter and Paul are also popular saints of their own. Occasionally, the other apostles come to the fore as individual figures. Direct influence from art on poetry or vice versa appears to be difficult to trace, but principal developments of late antique society are reflected in the representation of the apostles in both media.


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De eerste christenen : hun denken en doen
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ISBN: 9789077942383 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leuven Kampen Davidsfonds Kok

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In geen tijd wisten een handjevol eenvoudige lui dat Christus gevolgd was hun overtuiging en levenswijze te laten doordringen to in de verste uithoeken van de wereld. Een bijna geruisloze revolutie die het vooral moest hebben van mond - tot - mondreclame. Onze kennis over het begin van de christelijke cultuur is gebaseerd op geschreven bronnen. Een totaalvisie ontbreekt omdat de studie van de materiële cultuur, die ons rechtstreeks in contact brengt met het verleden, nog niet eerder te boek werd gesteld. De auteur neemt de lezer mee naar de wereld van het vroege christendom en schetst het cultureel - antropologisch kader aan de hand van illustraties. Hij maakt niet enkel kennis met het leven van elke dag, funeraire praktijken en beeldtaal, maar ook met de (vroeg) christelijke kunst. Bovendien gaat Provoost ook uitvoerig in op de expansie van het geloof: christenen bouwen eigen cultus gebouwen, Europa en Azië worden gechristianiseerd, kluizen en kloosters kennen een sterke groei en het proces van pelgrimstochten komt op gang


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Commemorating the dead : texts and artifacts in context : studies of Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials
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ISBN: 9783110200546 3110200546 1281999393 9786611999391 3110211572 9783110211573 9781281999399 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,

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The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and in light of ancient texts. Roman historians (John Bodel, Richard Saller, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill), archaeologists (Susan Stevens, Amy Hirschfeld), scholars of rabbinic period Judaism (Deborah Green), Christian history (Robin M. Jensen), and the New Testament (David Balch, Laurie Brink, O.P., Margaret M. Mitchell, Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.) engaged in a research trip to Rome and Tunisia to investigate imperial period burials first hand. Commemorting the Dead is the result of a three year scholarly conversation on their findings.


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The traditio legis : anatomy of an image
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ISBN: 1784910821 9781784910822 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

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This monograph engages in a close reading of the traditio legis, highlighting its novelty and complexity to early Christian viewers. The image is analyzed as a conflation of two distinct forms of representation, each constructed of unusual and potentially multivalent elements.

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