This book addresses scholars across disciplines interested in conceptions of authenticity in the construction of religious authority in Byzantium and Eastern Orthodoxy. By examining a range of textual and visual sources concerned with the concept of divine inspiration, it traces continuity and change from classical antiquity to Byzantium.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The early Christian iconography of divine inspiration: Novel approaches to an old pictorial theme; 2. Inspiration and the Bible in the post-iconoclastic era; 3. Inspiration continued: The writings of the church fathers; 4. Divine inspiration beyond the fathers; 5. Inspired icons; 6. Acheiropoietos: The Mandylion as "the radiance of God's glory and exact imprint of God's very being"; 7. Allegories of divine artistry: The Mandylion and its multiples.