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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. One...
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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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    The Gospel of John (Ancient Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, romanized: Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels in the New...
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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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    hand. The Rabbula Gospels, an illuminated manuscript prepared in 586 in the Monophysite monastery of Beth-Zagba. It contains the four Gospels and is kept...
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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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    Ascension of Jesus (category Gospel episodes)
    maintains a convent of the ascension on the top of the Mount of Olives. Rabbula Gospels 6th century Drogo Sacramentary c. 850 Andrei Rublev 1408 Pietro Perugino...
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  • the beginning of the Gospel of Luke. Other early Christian gospels, such as the so-called "Jewish-Christian Gospels" or the Gospel of Thomas, also offer...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Stephaton (category People in the canonical gospels)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Longinus (category People in the canonical gospels)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Nestorian Evangelion (category Gospel Books)
    Writing; Saint Mark Folio 9r: Saint Luke; Saint John and Saint Prochorus Rabbula Gospels Syriac Bible of Paris Drège, Jean-Pierre (1992). Marco Polo y la Ruta...
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    antiquity. He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the biblical text. As "Father...
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