Purpur in Byzanz

Privileg und Würdeformel

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As a supplement to the studies mentioned above and in response to the persistent desideratum of the few pictorial sources that have been analysed, this work focuses on the significance of purple fabric and purple colour in pictorial works and …

Biblisches Hebräisch

Textorientiertes Lehrbuch

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Part I presents at an very early stage a wide choice of proverbs and texts. The first emphases stimulates the fluency of reading, because if you readi a text again and again you will understand it better and better. The …

Biblisches Hebräisch

Grundwortschatz

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Students often mourn complain about the unfamilianrity of semitic languages. This key vocabulary of about 900 words contains– names and places are not included – will overcome these difficulties by etymological tipsreferences, typical syntactic connections and also by mnemonics for …

The Joshua Roll

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The “Joshua Roll” (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431), a tenth-century illuminated scroll of the first half of the Old Testament book of Joshua, is among the finest examples of Byzantine book illumination. Previously overlooked, the texts accompanying the …

Die Wiener Genesis im Rahmen der antiken Buchmalerei

Ikonographie, Darstellung, Illustrationsverfahren und Aussageintention

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In der Spätantike entstand ein neuer Kunstzweig, die malerische Ausstattung prachtvoller Bücher für ein reiches Publikum. Anhand ausführlicher ikonographischer Analysen der einzelnen Miniaturen der weltberühmten „Wiener Genesis“ aus dem 6. Jahrhundert werden Illustrationsverfahren und Entstehungsprozess der Handschrift rekonstruiert. Vor dem …