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The Old Testament in Byzantium / edited by Paul Magdalino and Robert Nelson. - Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2010. - viii, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia. . - Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia. .

Selected papers from a symposium held Dec. 2006, Dumbarton Oaks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Paul Magdalino and Robert Nelson -- The Greek Bible translations of the Byzantine Jews / Nicholas de Lange -- The prophetologion : the Old Testament of Byzantine Christianity? / James Miller -- Psalters and personal piety in Byzantium / Georgi R. Parpulov -- Illustrated Octateuch manuscripts : a Byzantine phenomenon / John Lowden -- Old Testament 'history' and the Byzantine chronicle / Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Old Testament models for emperors in early Byzantium / Claudia Rapp -- The Old Testament and monasticism / Derek Krueger -- New temples and new Solomons : the rhetoric of Byzantine architecture / Robert Ousterhout -- Old Testament models and the state in early medieval Bulgaria / Ivan Biliarsky -- Connecting Moses and Muhammad / Jane Dammen McAuliffe.

ISBN: 9780884023487 (alk. paper) 0884023486 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009020763

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA996969 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015385529 Uk

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Theology--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: BS1171.3 / .O43 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 221.09495/0902