Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each element of Christian imagery by whether its source is CANONICAL scripture or something else.
Groups: Canonical scripture · Another source
- The Crucifixion narrative
- Most of the lives of the martyrs as painted
- The Last Supper
- The ox and the ass at the Nativity
- The names of the Virgin's parents
- The raising of Lazarus
Hints
- Look for each detail in the gospels before assuming it is there.
- The ox and the ass come from the apocryphal tradition.
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Canonical scripture: The Crucifixion narrative, The Last Supper, The raising of Lazarus
Another source: The ox and the ass at the Nativity, The names of the Virgin's parents, Most of the lives of the martyrs as painted
Why
The second column is larger than most people expect, and the ox and ass are the standard demonstration: universally present in Nativity painting and absent from Luke. A painting is evidence about what a culture believed, not about what its canonical texts said.
Practise Judeo-Christian Sources I: Scripture and Typology
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