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This collection of eleven essays by biblical scholars, art historians, and experts in early Christianity explores a variety of topics and issues regarding the material culture of early Christianity recovered from Italy, Syria, Tunisia, and beyond. The essays place early Christian art representing such symbols as crosses, anchors, and shepherds found in sarcophagi, catacombs, architecture, mosaics, gems, and more in dialogue with New Testament and early Christian texts. Contributors ... place early Christian beliefs and practices in their proper historical, cultural, political, and religious contexts for scholars and students of the ancient world.

Examines the changing relationship between the Bible and the arts, showing how the arts portray biblical stories in various ways and through various media, and how 'the' Bible is actually multiple entities: fiercely contested translations in many languages. Generously illustrated with examples including painting, architecture and stained glass.

In dialogue Coptic and Russian religious culture reveals value of the symbol letter Iota, the tenth letter of the Coptic alphabet, which begins the name of Jesus Christ. Symbols of letter writing is compared with pronouncing the name of Jesus and reading the prayer of Jesus

An article discusses the use of special characters in the fine art, through which the author conveys deeper meaning of these characters to the observer. Use of special characters in the fine art is called symbolism. The presentation of hidden meanings also required law and justice, as well as their specific processes, their performance, and their results. The thesis defines the key terms – law, art, symbolism, and their interrelationships. The main goal of the thesis is the search of legal symbolism and analysis of legal symbolism in fine art and in specific art works. The work attempts to identify the hidden meanings of legal symbolism in its various dimensions. Through the research, thesis also focuses on the perception of legal symbolism in the fine art by its observers, as well as their ability to decipher the hidden legacy of the author.

Alegorías : significado literal y sentidos ocultos / María Tausiet -- El campo alegórico de la metamorfosis, la inestabilidad y el cambio en el Barroco hispano / Fernando R. de la Flor -- Un sueño alegórico sobre la locura en la España del siglo XVII : la Casa de los locos de amor de Antonio Ortiz de Melgarejo / Hélène Tropé -- Algegorías del enemigo : la demonización del islam en el arte de la "España" medieval y sus pervivencias en la Edad Moderna / Inés Monteira Arias -- La Verónica según Zurbarán : la pintura como figura y la imagen como vestigio / Felipe Pereda -- El ave del paraíso : historia natural y alegoría / José Ramón Marcaida López -- Flores de la pasion : dos alegorías del Nuevo Mundo / Juan Pimentel -- Alegorías del discernimiento : ángeles de luz e imágenes de santidad / Stuart Clark -- Alegorías del disimulo : el mesías ictiomorfo de los marranos / François Delpech -- Una nube negra : el aquelarre como antialegoría eucarística / María Tausiet.