Bøker av Peter Anthony

Goats are even-toed ungulates (hoofed mammals) that belong to the genus Capra of the bovid (Bovidae) family. Each of the several goat species is endemic to Asia, Europe, or northern Africa.The domestic goat is either a subspecies of the wild goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) or a separate species (C. hircus). It was one of the first domesticated species and continues to play a significant role in human society.Food (milk, meat, cheese), fiber and skin for clothing, brush and weed management, and religious, folkloric, and mythological symbolism are just a few of the many ways in which goats assist humankind.

Peter Anthony explores how visionary elements in Luke's Gospel had a particular influence on early interpretation of the Transfiguration, by examining the rich hermeneutical traditions that emerged - particularly in the Latin West - as the Transfiguration was first depicted visually in art.Anthony begins by comparing the visual and visionary culture of antiquity with that of the present, and their differing interpretations of the Transfiguration. He then examines the Transfiguration texts in the synoptic gospels and their interpretation in modern scholarship, and the reception of the Transfiguration in 2 Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter and the Acts of Peter, Tertullian and Origen. Proceeding to look at interpretations found in the Greek East and the Latin West, Anthony finally discusses the earliest visual depictions of the Transfiguration from the sixth century onward, drawn from a wealth of different art forms. Anthony concludes that early commentators' and artists' understanding of how we see and visualise, and therefore, how the Transfiguration was apprehended, is closer to that of the writers of the New Testament than many modern interpreters' is.