In the beginning : bibles before the year 1000 / Michelle Brown, editor.
Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2006Description: 360 p. ; 27 cmISBN: 9781588342409 (hardcover); 1588342409 (hardcover); 9780934686037 (pbk.); 0934686033 (pbk.)Subject(s): Bible -- History | Bible -- Manuscripts -- History | Bible -- Publication and distribution -- HistoryDDC classification: 220.4/074753 LOC classification: BS445 | .I5 2006Other classification: 11.32 Online resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven Main Library | BS 445 BEGI 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35678000280224 |
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.