In the beginning : bibles before the year 1000 / edited by Michelle P. Brown ; essays by Michelle P. Brown [and others] ; with contributions from Zaza Alexidze [and others].

Format Book
Publication Info[Washington, D.C.] : Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery ; New York ; Washington : Distributed by Smithsonian Books, ©2006.
Description360 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 28 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Other author/creatorBrown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
Other author/creatorFreer Gallery of Art.
Other author/creatorArthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Other author/creatorBodleian Library.
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.
General notePublished on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, Oct. 21, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007, organized by the Freer Gallery of Art & the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in partnership with The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006020112
ISBN1588342409 (hardcover)
ISBN0934686033 (pbk.)
ISBN9781588342409
ISBN9780934686037

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Joyner General Stacks BS445 .I5 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold