Practice question · True or false
The ox and the ass at the Nativity appear in the Gospel of Luke.
Hints
- Try to find them in the text.
- They come from the apocryphal tradition and a reading of Isaiah.
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False
Why
False, and it is the standard demonstration of the lesson. They are universally present in Nativity painting and absent from Luke, arriving through the apocryphal tradition and a reading of Isaiah, which shows that painting records what a culture believed rather than what its canonical texts contained.
Practise Judeo-Christian Sources I: Scripture and Typology
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