Scientific edition of some plaster fragments displayed in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, bearing painted Biblical quotations, from an unknown site. The author identifies the inscribed fragments as pertaining to a fresco viewed in 1922 in the st. Theoktistos monastery in the Judaean Desert, between Jerusalem and Jericho. according to this new perspective, a different arrangement of the fragments is proposed in order to have a more correct view of the original aspect of the inscription, pertaining to the image of Christ as God painted in the main church of the monastery: the representation is a clear expression of the Orthodox faith of the monks against the growing monophysism and Christian Jacobite communities during 7th -8th centuries CE in the general context of the Muslim conquest of Middle East.
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Titolo: | New Testament quotations in some painted plaster fragments in the Israel Museum – Addenda et corrigenda to Biblia Epigraphica (nos. 162-164 and 177) |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2020 |
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Abstract: | Scientific edition of some plaster fragments displayed in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, bearing painted Biblical quotations, from an unknown site. The author identifies the inscribed fragments as pertaining to a fresco viewed in 1922 in the st. Theoktistos monastery in the Judaean Desert, between Jerusalem and Jericho. according to this new perspective, a different arrangement of the fragments is proposed in order to have a more correct view of the original aspect of the inscription, pertaining to the image of Christ as God painted in the main church of the monastery: the representation is a clear expression of the Orthodox faith of the monks against the growing monophysism and Christian Jacobite communities during 7th -8th centuries CE in the general context of the Muslim conquest of Middle East. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11586/229803 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |