Creation

From the exhibition:
Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible

New Mexico History Museum

The Creation panel from Creation, Covenant, Shekinah, Kingdom, Donald Jackson, 2006, The Saint John’s Bible, Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota.

This illumination (with contribution by Chris Tomlin) takes us back to the theme of creation running throughout the Wisdom Books. The four panels refer back to the stories in the narrative: Creation, Flood, Exodus and the Temple. 

This panel, with motifs from Genesis, is most clearly tied to the creation theme.  

(Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition, © 1993, 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.)

 


Note: Representative image at left is often cropped for display purposes. Downloaded high-resolution images are not cropped.