Three Hebrews
Jacopo Gnisci
General description
A Miniature showing the three Hebrew youths ↗ thrown into a fiery furnace. The miniature generally includes the angel, Gabriel↗ , who protects them from the flames. The miniature may also feature Nebuchadnezzar↗ and his guards. From the seventeenth-century the episode may be divided into several scenes. The main typologies attested in the Ethiopian tradition are:
- Type 1
The Angel stands behind the youths
- Type 2
The Angel stands to the side of the youths
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Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Chojnacki, S. 1991. ‘Les trois hébreux dans la fournaise: une enquête iconographique dans la peinture éthiopienne’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 35 (1991), 13–40 (DOI: 10.2307/41299942).
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Alessandro Bausi, Jacopo Gnisci, ʻThree Hebrewsʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 7.4.2018) https://betamasaheft.eu/authority-files/AT1028HebrewsFurnace [Accessed: 2024-05-04+02:00]
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- Jacopo Gnisci Jacopo Gnisci: Added bibliography on 7.4.2018
- Jacopo Gnisci Jacopo Gnisci: Created entity on 7.11.2017