In the beginning : bibles before the year 1000 / Michelle Brown, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2006.Description: 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781588342409 (hardcover)
  • 1588342409 (hardcover)
  • 9780934686037 (pbk.)
  • 0934686033 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: In the beginning.DDC classification:
  • 220.4/074753 22
LOC classification:
  • BS445 .I5 2006
Other classification:
  • 11.32
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Foreword from the Freer Gallery of art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Foreword from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford -- Introduction by Michelle Brown -- Charles Lang Freer as collector of biblical manuscripts by Ann Gunter -- The journey of the text -- Chronology -- Map -- Catalogue -- Discovering the Bible -- Scroll and codex -- The earliest Hebrew scriptures -- The earliest Christian scriptures -- Formation and codification : the evolution of the Bible -- From Babel to Pentecost : sacred languages and the vernaculars -- Spreading the Word -- The single-volume Bible -- The book as desert, the scribe as evangelist -- From eastern deserts to western isles -- Early Christian Britain and Ireland -- Book as icon -- Reference catalogue -- Manuscripts and lenders in the exhibition -- Glossary and who's who.
Summary: Michelle Brown, former curator at the British Library, gathers together seventy fragile biblical treasures in this sumptuously illustrated volume that captures the development of both Bible and book, as well as a formative period of early Christian history. The book features a number of rare parchments, codices, illuminated manuscripts, and jeweled bindings, including new finds from the Monastery of St. Catherine's at Mount Sinai, Egypt, and the Niketas Bible of the 10th-century CE, one of the greatest examples of Byzantine illumination. Leading authorities in the field explore the early history of the Bible in the accompanying essays, revealing its transformation into the complex symbol of faith that it is today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Foreword from the Freer Gallery of art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Foreword from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford -- Introduction by Michelle Brown -- Charles Lang Freer as collector of biblical manuscripts by Ann Gunter -- The journey of the text -- Chronology -- Map -- Catalogue -- Discovering the Bible -- Scroll and codex -- The earliest Hebrew scriptures -- The earliest Christian scriptures -- Formation and codification : the evolution of the Bible -- From Babel to Pentecost : sacred languages and the vernaculars -- Spreading the Word -- The single-volume Bible -- The book as desert, the scribe as evangelist -- From eastern deserts to western isles -- Early Christian Britain and Ireland -- Book as icon -- Reference catalogue -- Manuscripts and lenders in the exhibition -- Glossary and who's who.

Michelle Brown, former curator at the British Library, gathers together seventy fragile biblical treasures in this sumptuously illustrated volume that captures the development of both Bible and book, as well as a formative period of early Christian history. The book features a number of rare parchments, codices, illuminated manuscripts, and jeweled bindings, including new finds from the Monastery of St. Catherine's at Mount Sinai, Egypt, and the Niketas Bible of the 10th-century CE, one of the greatest examples of Byzantine illumination. Leading authorities in the field explore the early history of the Bible in the accompanying essays, revealing its transformation into the complex symbol of faith that it is today.