Episode Eleven, the final episode in New Testament: Gospels, is focused on the Gospel of St. Mark is now online in both video and podcast versions. The subjects are the “Turning Point” verse (10:45) and ten examples of unique content or details. The illustration, The Empty Tomb, is the upper panel, in a 3-tier miniature illumination in colored inks and gold on parchment from the Codex Aureus of Echternach, circa 1030-1050 A.D., German National Museum, Munich, Germany and in several other locations. It shows the three women with an angel at the empty tomb. Only St. Mark identifies Salome as one of the women. In a higher resolution version the effect of the gilding is much more obvious.
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Next week I hope to upload Episode Twelve, the first focused on the Gospel of St. Luke. I am currently working on text and slides for Episode Twenty-nine on the Gospel of St. John. Other obligations nearly kept me from getting Episode Eleven out this week.
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Episode Ten in the revised and expanded Bible Study Video series, New Testament: Gospels, is now available. This latest episode includes the final 3 of 18 miracles and the Jesus-Disciples dialogue that comes immediately before the Turning Point Verse, Mark 10:45. The selected illustration is Feeding the Multitude, an illumination in tempera and gilt on parchment from the Codex Egberti, a Gospel book prepared for Egbert, Bishop of Trier, between 980 and 993 A.D. at the Reichenau Monastery, Reichenau, Germany. Folio 047V, Trier City Library, Trier, Germany.
Episode Nine in the revised edition of our Bible Study series, New Testament: Gospels is now online in both video and podcast versions. In Episode Nine I continue discussion of the Gospel of St. Mark with the next six of eighteen miracles he describes. The first three demonstate Divine Power over Nature and the second three demonstrate Divine Power over Speech and Sight. The illustration, Calming the Seas, is the top half of a miniature illumination in colored inks and gilt on vellum from the Gospels of Otto III, produced at Reichenau Monastery, Reichenau, Germany, in the late 10th or early 11th C. The original is at the Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany. I applied perspective correction to the original image. Otto III was a Saxon/German king who ruled the Holy Roman Empire in Europe, which was revived in 800 A.D. by Charlemagne. The monastery is the same facility where the Bamberg Apocalypse was prepared in the early 11th C. Viewers who have read the AIC Bookstore Publication, Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation, which includes 51 illustrations from the Bamberg Apocalypse, will recognize the style and, possibly, some of the faces.
The example is Christ Healing the Man with a Withered Hand from the Hitda Codex, a Gospel book commissioned by and named in honor of the Abbess of the convent at Meschede, Germany, after 1020 A.D., Hessische Landesbibliotek, Darmstadt, Germany. Photoshop effects applied. The document is in the artistic tradition of the Ottonian dynasty of Saxon kings, successors to Charlemagne in the revived Holy Roman Empire in Western Europe. A better image is now available in The Gospel of Luke: In Scripture, Art & Christian Tradition, image number 52 (See the 
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