Art and the Christian Apocrypha

The Christian canon of scripture, known as the New Testament, excluded many of the Church's traditional stories about its origins. Although not in the Bible, these popular stories have had a powerful influence on the Church's traditions and theology, and a particularly marked effect on visual representations of Christian belief. This book provides a lucid introduction to the relationship between the apocryphal texts and the paintings, mosaics, and sculpture in which they are frequently paralleled, and which have been so significant in transmitting these non-Biblical stories to generations of churchgoers.

Author: David R. Cartlidge, J. Keith Elliot
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/06/2001
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.71lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.96w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780415233927

About the Author

David R. Cartlidge is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Maryville College, Tennessee, USA. Keith Elliot is Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism at the University of Leeds, UK.