Reader's Digest The Story of Jesus 1993 Hardcover 500 Illustrations Dust Jacket

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A large, generously illustrated life of Jesus, told through scripture and through art. Reader's Digest's "The Story of Jesus" follows the Gospel narrative and sets it alongside 500 works of art gathered from museums, churches and libraries around the world. Early catacomb frescoes and mosaics, illuminated medieval manuscripts and ivories, stone carving and stained glass from Europe's great cathedrals, and paintings by Caravaggio, El Greco, Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian and Vermeer, through to modern work by Gauguin, Chagall and Salvador Dali. Woven through it are background sections on the world Jesus lived in: Herod's temple, the Wise Men, the Galilee of his childhood, marriage and burial customs in ancient Palestine, the Passover and Pentecost feasts, the search for the true Cross, and more. A chronology compares events across the four Gospels. It is as much a book to look through as to read, and it holds up well on a coffee table or a side table at Christmas and Easter. Details: • Hardcover with dust jacket • The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York and Montreal, 1993 • 500 illustrations, many in full color • Background sections plus a four-Gospel chronology Condition: pre-owned. Light edge and corner wear to the cover, as pictured. The pages shown in the photos are clean. Please look through every photo, as they show the actual book you will receive. Please Always Read The Condition Description Located in Item Descript

• Year: 1993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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