J. Pattengale, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Filip Vukosavović.

Heather N. Reichstadt.

Jerusalem, Israel, 2013. 127 pp., illustrations: 68 col., 28 × 22 cm. English.

978965702726Y

Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem (23 October 2013–25 October 2014)

Rare biblical manuscripts and printed books from the Second Temple Period through modern times, illustrating the Jewish roots of Christianity and the dissemination of monotheistic faith. Preface by Steve Green. 17 historical essays on various manuscripts, editions and translations of the Bible and the New Testament, the development of Christianity, biblical interpretation, the revolution of printing, etc. Manuscript illumination is treated in two essays, “Medieval Hebrew Bibles: Art and Illumination” (David Lyle Jeffrey) and “Medieval Christian Biblical Manuscripts: the Art of Writing and Illumination” (Michelle P. Brown, Jennifer Atwood). No itemized listing.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
BIBLES
CHRISTIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
HEBREW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, BIBLES
MONOTHEISM
PRINTED BOOKS

Coins
Dead Sea Scrolls
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Ashkenaz, 12th–14th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Italy, 17th–19th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Yemen
Scrolls of Esther, illuminated
Torah (scroll)
Torah staves

Invitation to exhibition opening, leaflet, 4 pp., 21.2 × 14.5 cm; Exhibition flyer, single page, 2 col. illus., 21 × 15 cm.