Picturing the Bible - Spier, Jeffrey; Kessler, Herbert L.; Fine,
Steven; Charles-Murray, Mary; Deckers, Johannes; Jensen, Robin
Margaret; Kimbell Art Museum - Yale University Press - Related
Categories - Art and Architecture Published in association with
the Kimbell Art Museum Picturing the Bible The Earliest
Christian Art Jeffrey Spier; With contributions by Herbert L.
Kessler, Steven Fine, Robin M. Jensen, Johannes G. Deckers, Mary
Charles-Murray et al. Picturing the Bible explores the vast
tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third
century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its
outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the
Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express
their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with
Mosaic law by creating “graven images”? What Jewish and pagan
sources, if any, did they look to for inspiration? When did they
begin to depict the life of Jesus? This beautifully illustrated
book takes up such questi