The Spat-upon Face of God Jesus Christ as the Ancient of Days in the Apocalypse from the Book of Daniel

Abstrakt

This chapter deals with one of the likeness of the God according to the text of the Book of Daniel. The depiction of Ancient of Days were used especially in the Byzantine or Old Russian Church.

In the Western religious and culture world, this image helped to portray God the Father.

Klíčová slova

• Ancient of Days
• Son of man
• Holy Trinity
• Emmanuel
• Pantocrator
• Apocalypse
• Book of Daniel
• Book of Henoch
• Apocalypse of Paul from the Nag Hammadí
• Pseudo-Dionysios Areopagite
• idolatry
• byzantine art
• late gothic art
• renaissance art