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Jeremiah Through the Centuries
Mary Chilton Callaway
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Title: Jeremiah through the centuries / Mary Chilton Callaway.
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For Jamiewho always finds grace in the wilderness
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Figure 1 | Rembrandt van Rijn, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. |
Figure 2 | Jeremiah with scroll and Ark. Wall fresco in the synagogue at Dura Europos. Public domain. |
Figure 3 | John of Damascus, Sacra Parallela. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Grec 923, fol. 258v. Constantinople. |
Figure 4 | Prophet Jeremiah, Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images. |
Figure 5 | The Prophet Armia, miniature from the “Jami’ al‐Tawarikh” of Rashid al‐Din, Ms Or 20 f. 13v c. 1307. Edinburgh University Library/Bridgeman Images. |
Figure 6 | Headpiece to Jeremiah in the Coverdale Bible 1535. Reproduced with permission of the syndics of the Cambridge University Library. |
Figure 7 | The Prophet Jeremia. Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus. Icones Prophetarum Veteris Testamenti Antwerp 1613. Private collection. |
Figure 8 | Jeremiah before Zedekiah. Claes Jansz. Visscher. Theatrum Biblicum, hoc est historiae sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti tabulis aeneis expressae. Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. |
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