TY - SER
AU - Michelle Brown
CY - Washington, D.C.
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
Foreword / Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Foreword / The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford -- Introduction / Michelle Brown -- Charles Lang Freer's biblical manuscripts / Ann Gunter -- The Bible: the journey of the text -- Europe and the Near East, circa 800 C.E. -- Bible and book / Harry Y. Gamble -- The Christian Orient / Monica J. Blanchard -- Spreading the Word / Michelle P. Brown -- The book as icon / Herbert L. Kessler -- Discovering the Bible -- Scroll and codex: The earliest Hebrew scriptures. The earliest Christian scriptures -- Formation and codification: The evolution of the Bible. The earliest Christian Bibles -- 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 -- The book as icon -- Reference catalogue -- Manuscripts and lenders in the exhibition -- Chronology -- Glossary and who's who -- Notes to the essays
PB - Smithsonian Books
PP - Washington, D.C.
PY - 2006
SN - 9780934686037
EP - 360 pp.
TI - In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000
ER -