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The World's Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria (Synkrisis) Hardcover – January 26, 2016

by Michael Peppard (Author)

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Michael Peppard provides a historical and theological reassessment of the oldest Christian building ever discovered, the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos. Contrary to commonly held assumptions about Christian initiation, Peppard contends that rituals here did not primarily embody notions of death and resurrection. Rather, he portrays the motifs of the church’s wall paintings as those of empowerment, healing, marriage, and incarnation, while boldly reidentifying the figure of a woman formerly believed to be a repentant sinner as the Virgin Mary. This richly illustrated volume is a breakthrough work that enhances our understanding of early Christianity at the nexus of Bible, art, and ritual.

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Series: Synkrisis
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (January 26, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300213999
ISBN-13: 978-0300213997
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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By Stephen Goranson on February 21, 2016

Format: Hardcover

I recommend that libraries obtain this book for its interesting arguments and contributions to learning, though scholars might do well to recognize some shortcomings. It is generally quite well written and produced (a rare exception: consistently misspelling the Protogospel of James scholar George Zervos as Zevros), but it underplays or omits some evidence. If it had presented itself only as arguments for the author's views on the baptistery, that might have helped. But on page 44 it describes itself as "updating the scholarship on every aspect of the house-church since 1967," the date of Carl H. Kraeling's final report on The Christian Building, which remains the single most indispensable volume on the subject. The bibliography, though large, is not complete, and some of it is not used in the way a comprehensive updating would have. For example, Kurt Weitzmann's 1990 volume is listed, but Weitzmann appears just once in the text (not twice as the index mistakes), and then only as a foil by reasonably remarking that a painting of David and Goliath might seem--as many think-- odd in a baptistery, before Peppard argues that it is not odd if one takes into account the Dura Roman garrison. And maybe it was not odd in context, as the little church could identify with young David. Yet Weitzmann's proposals that many paintings had manuscript models (e.g., the Cotton Genesis as used in depicting San Marco Venice Genesis personified days of creation) are not conveyed, and Weitzmann's coauthor Herbert Kessler's significant arguments that the Dura synagogue and church painting were partially in dialogue are passed over, as would not happen in a comprehensive update.

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