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repose (with ἀναπαύω) in the "bosoms" (ἐν κόλποις and variants) of
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Abraham and, usually, his successor patriarchs Isaac and Jacob.[^12]
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Table 1. Greek epitaphs from northern Nubia with the same formulary as the Brooklyn Museum stele, by provenance. (Names are presented without normalization.)
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Table 1. Greek epitaphs from northern Nubia with the same formulary as the Brooklyn Museum stele, by provenance. (Names are presented without normalization.)
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The theological implications of this plural expansion of the "bosom"
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(see further the commentary to line 8 of the edition below) remains to
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be explained. After the seminal passage of Luke 16, the deceased was
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Nazianzus produced for the Byzantine emperor Basil I (fig. 4)---as
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sitting in Abraham's lap.
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**~~Figure 4. Illuminated copy of Gregory of Nazianzus, scene of Dives and Lazarus. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, grec 510, fol. 149r. Source: gallica.bnf.fr.~~**
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The publication of the Brooklyn Museum epitaph, besides encouraging the
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continued commemoration of Timothea---an activity that the inclusion of
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a month date in the text was meant to promote---,[^21] offers a small
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elsewhere (Primis, Pakhoras) but retaining a position as urban
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centers.[^22]
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**~~Figure 4. Illuminated copy of Gregory of Nazianzus, scene of Dives and Lazarus. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, grec 510, fol. 149r. Source: gallica.bnf.fr.~~**
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# Edition
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Epitaph of Timothea
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