Книга: «The Old Testament in Byzantium»

The Old Testament in Byzantium

Производитель: "Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection"

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. ISBN:978-0-88402-348-7

Издательство: "Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection" (2010)

ISBN: 978-0-88402-348-7

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

      in Washington, D.C., institution in a Georgian-style mansion built in 1801 and housing Byzantine art (4th–15th century), pre-Columbian art (in an addition of eight circular glass galleries designed by Philip Johnson), and three libraries: a 100,000-volume Byzantine collection, an 18,000-volume pre-Columbian collection, and a 13,000-volume gardening and landscape architecture collection. The mansion (originally the home of William Hammond Dorsey), art collections, and book collections were all owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, who presented them (along with funds to maintain them) to Harvard University in 1940. In 1944 the conference of representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and the Soviet Union that led to the founding of the United Nations was held at the mansion.

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Источник: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

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