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37 - The Bible in popular and non-literary culture

from Part V - The Reception of the Bible in the Post-New Testament Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2013

James Carleton Paget
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Joachim Schaper
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen
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The ancient experience of the Bible was bound to be multi-media. This chapter delineates the experience of the Bible in Late Antiquity as a series of texts born out of ancient culture. The sacred texts of Christianity could be spread by the spoken world. At the heart of this practice of course lay the regular readings of biblical texts, which took place as part of the liturgy. The discovery of the stunning painted decoration of the Jewish synagogue and Christian baptistery at Dura Europus in Syria was one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. The Jonah story is to be found depicted in paintings, sculpture and glass, generally taking a common form. The provision of tituli together with images in churches seems to have been the norm, and these tituli often had pretensions to high literary culture.
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Print publication year: 2013

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