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    The Rabbula Gospels, or Rabula Gospels (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod. Plut. I, 56), is a 6th-century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book....
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    stance of that bishopric. Rabbula is not to be confused with the otherwise unknown scribe of the 6th century Rabbula Gospels. Venerated as a Saint by Eastern...
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    of the Gospels and have been applied as proof texts for the creation of critical editions of the Ethiopic Gospels by Rochus Zuurmond (Gospel of Mark...
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    Greek, there are also manuscripts from the Syriac Church, such as the Rabbula Gospels, and Armenian illuminated manuscripts which are heavily influenced...
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    narrative Gospel cycles from manuscripts in the period are Greek, notably the Rossano Gospels, and Sinope Gospels, or the Syriac Rabbula Gospels. The equivalent...
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    theological discussions of the late 4th and early 5th centuries. The Rabbula Gospels (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the Crucifixion and...
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    Ascension of Jesus (category Gospel episodes)
    century, ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches. The Rabbula Gospels (c. 586) include some of the earliest images of the ascension. Many...
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    that in the Rabbula Gospels often show Christ flanked by Longinus and Stephaton with their spear and pole with vinegar. According to the gospels, the vinegar...
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    is in the Gospels, where Jesus is given a sponge soaked in oxos (conventionally translated as "vinegar") during his crucifixion; the Gospel of John mentions...
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  • canonical gospels is Irenaeus of Lyon, who promoted the four canonical gospels in his book Against Heresies, written around 180. The Gospel of Matthew...
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    of the New Testament, from the 5th/6th-century Rabbula Gospels – a 6th-century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book Khaboris Codex – a 10th-century complete...
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    the famous late sixth-century depiction of the crucifixion in the Rabbula Gospels. In medieval art, St Dismas is often depicted as accompanying Jesus...
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    of the four gospels or Vetus Syra is preserved today in only four manuscripts, both with a large number of gaps. The Curetonian Gospels consist of fragments...
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    the Gospels. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0802876751. Köstenberger 2013, p. unpaginated. Burge 2014, pp. 236–37. Vytlačilová, Magdalena. "Jesus, the Gospels, and...
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    Stephaton (category People in the Gospel of Mark)
    soaked in vinegar while on the cross appears in all four of the canonical gospels, with some variation. In both Mark 15:35–36 and Matthew 27:47–48, just...
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    Longinus (category People in the Gospel of John)
    for this soldier is given in the canonical Gospels; the name Longinus is instead found in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. Longinus was not originally...
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    miniatures in the Rabbula Gospels. Based on this it is unlikely that this manuscript was made much later than were the Rabula Gospels of 586. The manuscript...
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  • literature is traditionally considered to include the following works: The Gospel of John The Johannine epistles The First Epistle of John The Second Epistle...
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  • change in the theological focus of the early Church. The sixth-century Rabbula Gospels include some of the earliest images of the crucifixion and resurrection...
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    of Saint Maroun and the Crucifixion was copied from the 6th-century Rabbula Gospels manuscript, and was donated by Cardinal Donald Wuerl. The chapel was...
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    The crucifixion darkness is an event described in the synoptic gospels in which the sky becomes dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly...
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    that in the Gospels they had told the corporal matters, supported by his disciples and inspired by the Holy Spirit, he wrote a spiritual Gospel." Origen...
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    including Oescus and Ratiaria. The Page with the Crucifixion, from the "Rabbula Gospels", at the Monastery of St. John in Beth Zagba (Syria), is completed...
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    later depictions, with an Ascension scene above. The late 6th-century Rabbula Gospel book which includes one of the earliest Crucifixion sequences in a manuscript...
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    He wrote the Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the biblical text. His work...
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    century, although such mandorlas may have been depicted even before. The Rabbula Gospels also show a mandorla in its Transfiguration in the late sixth century...
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    change in the theological focus of the early Church. The 6th-century Rabbula Gospels includes some of the earliest surviving images of the crucifixion and...
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    Abbaye aux-dames Sainte-Trinité Caen, 1862 Early depiction from the Rabbula Gospels, 6th century Wolfegg Castle, 15th century Russian icon, 15th century...
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    Jesus. The hand is mostly found in Baptisms between the 6th (e.g. Rabbula Gospels) and 11th centuries. The hand is found in some Western and later Armenian...
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    Cleansing of the Temple (category Gospel episodes)
    synoptic Gospels) and "a market" (in the Gospel of John) through their commercial activities. The narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at...
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