Selected Papers on Iconoclasm and Apocrypha

by Stephen Gero

The book contains about 30 reprinted articles covering the main fields of studies of Stephen Gero, a renown specialist in the Oriental connections of Byzantium and the early Christian literature in different traditions of Byzantium and Christian East. A special attention is paid to the "afterlife" of the early Christian and late Jewish pseudepigrapha in the medieval traditions of Christianity. The whole series of Gero's classical articles on the history and the doctrines of the Byzantine Iconoclasm is included.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published November 11, 2009