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The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated Gospel Books from Ethiopia (Manar Al-Athar Monograph) (Manar al-Athar Monographs) by Judith S. McKenzie, Michael Gervers, Francis Watson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. 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. 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). Like most gospel manuscripts, the Garima Gospels contain ornately decorated canon tables which function as concordances of the different versions of the same material in the gospels. Analysis of these tables of numbered parallel passages, devised by Eusebius of Caesarea, contributes significantly to our understanding of the early development of the canonical four gospel collection. The origins and meanings of the decorated frames, portraits of the evangelists, Alexandrian circular pavilion, and unique image of the Jerusalem Temple are elucidated. 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. Lavishly illustrated in colo
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- Author
- Judith S. McKenzie, Michael Gervers, Francis Watson
- Publisher
- Manar al-Athar, University of Oxford
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780995494602
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Christian, Bible