@ -114,8 +114,6 @@ euphemistic verb of death, the date, and a prayer for a divine grant of
repose (with ἀναπαύω) in the "bosoms" (ἐν κόλποις and variants) of
Abraham and, usually, his successor patriarchs Isaac and Jacob.[^12]
Table 1. Greek epitaphs from northern Nubia with the same formulary as the Brooklyn Museum stele, by provenance. (Names are presented without normalization.)
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Table 1. Greek epitaphs from northern Nubia with the same formulary as the Brooklyn Museum stele, by provenance. (Names are presented without normalization.)
The theological implications of this plural expansion of the "bosom"
(see further the commentary to line 8 of the edition below) remains to
be explained. After the seminal passage of Luke 16, the deceased was
@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ imagined---to judge from the famous illuminated manuscript of Gregory of
Nazianzus produced for the Byzantine emperor Basil I (fig. 4)---as
sitting in Abraham's lap.
**~~Figure 4. Illuminated copy of Gregory of Nazianzus, scene of Dives and Lazarus. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, grec 510, fol. 149r. Source: gallica.bnf.fr.~~**
The publication of the Brooklyn Museum epitaph, besides encouraging the
continued commemoration of Timothea---an activity that the inclusion of
a month date in the text was meant to promote---,[^21] offers a small
@ -229,12 +234,6 @@ testaments to society in cities like Talmis and Taphis, later ruled from
elsewhere (Primis, Pakhoras) but retaining a position as urban
centers.[^22]
**~~Figure 4. Illuminated copy of Gregory of Nazianzus, scene of Dives and Lazarus. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, grec 510, fol. 149r. Source: gallica.bnf.fr.~~**
