The Old Testament in Byzantium

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-88402-399-9
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia

This volume contains selected papers from a December 2006 Dumbarton Oaks symposium that complemented an exhibition of early Bible manuscripts at the Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery of Art titled "In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000." Speakers were invited to examine the use of the Greek Old Testament as a text, social practice, and cultural experience in the Byzantine Empire. Not only are reminiscences of the Old Testament ubiquitous in Byzantine literature and art, but the Byzantine people also revered and identified with Old Testament role models. The Old Testament connected Byzantium not only with its Christian neighbors but with Jewish and Muslim peoples as well. This widespread phenomenon has never received systematic investigation. The Old Testament in Byzantium considers the manifestations of the holy books in Byzantine manuscript illustration, architecture, and government, as well as in Jewish Bible translations and the construction of Muhammad's character.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Magdalino, Paul

Nelson, Robert S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

de Lange, Nicholas

Miller, James A.

Parpulov, Georgi

Lowden, John

Jeffreys, Elizabeth

Rapp, Claudia

Krueger, Derek

Ousterhout, Robert G.

Biliarsky, Ivan

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffreys, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Jeffreys is Emerita Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and Emerita Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

Magdalino, Paul
Paul Magdalino is Professor of Byzantine History at Koç University and Fellow of the British Academy.

Krueger, Derek
Derek Krueger is Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Nelson, Robert S.
Robert S. Nelson is Robert Lehman Professor of History of Art, Yale University.

Ousterhout, Robert G.
Robert G. Ousterhout is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.