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1 print : etching ; platemark 27.8 x 18.2 cm

The builders of the Tower of Babel start to argue as their language is confounded. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet, c. 1700.

Bible, O.T. Genesis 8.17-21; 11.1-4; 9.13. After God smells the "sweet savour" of Noah's sacrifice (Genesis 8.21), he sets a "bow in the cloud" (Genesis 9.13) to seal his covenant with Noah's people. In the middle image, the two figures in the left-hand corner may refer back to Brueghel's 'Tower of Babel' in which Nimrod the king, in the left-hand corner with his entourage, supervises the building. In the print, one of the two figures wears a crown and the other, perhaps an architect, holds a plan

1 print : etching ; platemark 9.9 x 19.3 cm

Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood; the Tower of Babel; God responds to Noah's sacrifice with a rainbow. Etching by J. Hulett.

1 print : etching, with line engraving ; platemark 39.5 x 54.3 cm

Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck dumb, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by C. Tinti, 1771, after A. del Sarto.

Fordham Perspectives in Continental Philosophy.

Perspectives in continental philosophy

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

The rebellious no : variations on a secular theology of language / Noëlle Vahanian.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 23.1 x 38.8 cm

Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching.

Bible. N.T. Acts 2.1-16. The sole reference to Mary in this relation is Acts 1.14, in which she is simply described as being present. A dove hovers above the Virgin, who does not play a role in the Biblical version of the Pentecost. The Bible tells how the apostles were deemed by onlookers to be drunk

Decacordum Christianum

1 photomechanical print : reproduction of a woodcut ; border 25.8 x 16.8 cm.

Tongues of fire appear to the apostles, who sit around a throne, occupied by the praying Virgin Mary. Reproduction of a woodcut.

Bible. N.T. Matthew 12.3; Mark 4.1; Luke 8.4. There is a companion print in the same series, showing Satan sowing "fraus", "plasphemia", "superstitio", "ebrietas" and "crudelitas" (referring to Matthew 13.24, on the enemy sowing weeds among good seed)

XL Emblemata miscella nova

A man scatters seeds; representing the Biblical parable of the sower; here referring to the "ministry of the word", preaching. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Bible. N.T. Acts 2.1-16, as foretold by John the Baptist in Matthew 3.11. The Virgin Mary sits in the centre, a common trope in iconographic tradition but without biblical foundation. A dove hovers above. Tongues of fire rain down; four of the apostles hold books. The Bible tells how the men appeared drunk to onlookers when they spoke in tongues

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 19.7 x 14.6 cm

Tongues of fire descend on the apostles at Pentecost. Engraving by Sadeler after M. de Vos.

Bible. N.T. Luke 1.57-64. On the far right an old Jew sits holding a knife, preparing for the child's circumcision (which, like the naming, occurs eight days after birth)

1 print : etching ; platemark 25.2 x 27.6 cm

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The builders of the Tower of Babel start to argue as their language is confounded. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet, c. 1700.

Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood; the Tower of Babel; God responds to Noah's sacrifice with a rainbow. Etching by J. Hulett.

Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck dumb, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by C. Tinti, 1771, after A. del Sarto.

The rebellious no : variations on a secular theology of language / Noëlle Vahanian.

Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching.

Tongues of fire appear to the apostles, who sit around a throne, occupied by the praying Virgin Mary. Reproduction of a woodcut.

A man scatters seeds; representing the Biblical parable of the sower; here referring to the "ministry of the word", preaching. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Tongues of fire descend on the apostles at Pentecost. Engraving by Sadeler after M. de Vos.

Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck by dumbness, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck.

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The builders of the Tower of Babel start to argue as their language is confounded. Etching by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet, c. 1700.

Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood; the Tower of Babel; God responds to Noah's sacrifice with a rainbow. Etching by J. Hulett.

Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck dumb, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by C. Tinti, 1771, after A. del Sarto.

The rebellious no : variations on a secular theology of language / Noëlle Vahanian.

Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching.

Tongues of fire appear to the apostles, who sit around a throne, occupied by the praying Virgin Mary. Reproduction of a woodcut.

A man scatters seeds; representing the Biblical parable of the sower; here referring to the "ministry of the word", preaching. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Tongues of fire descend on the apostles at Pentecost. Engraving by Sadeler after M. de Vos.

Zacharias (father of John the Baptist), struck by dumbness, writes that his son should be known as John. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck.

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