Maxwell Institute Podcast #129
Maxwell Institute Podcast
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Early Christian Art of Eve on an Oil Lamp
Early christians drew on visual vocabulary that was already in their environment. For centuries, there had been ways of depicting a woman who is unclothed and is covering herself. And so whoever owned this oil lamp and saw this image would have seen eve differing a little bit from the image in their visual environment. In antiquity, speech is often gendered and coded as masculine. But in early christianity, very often there are female figures depicted speaking, bearing witness of the christian message.
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