The Pepper Bible
A recent comment alerted me to this labour of love – a contemporary illustrated manuscript of the Bible in English. Working on the same basic principles as a medieval scribe, the artist has used contemporary imagery to illuminate the text – space travel and technology, as well as images from the natural world. It’s well worth a look.
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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That’s beautiful; it takes my breath away.
THat is very interesting…thanks for sharing that link.
–RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com
Hello, I am James Pepper and if you have any questions fire away. CBS is going to interview me tomorrow so there will be more on Television about my work. If you know any publishers out there, the word is HELP!
I just completed a set of Gospels at took 50 months to complete. There are 310 illuminated pages in it. The Gospel of Saint Luke has 25 Carpet pages, full page illuminations starting off the chapters, and most of the verse initials are inhabited. They have a subject matter in the verse initial, a drawing which represents a letter of the alphabet. For instance on one page I have a Hawk, an Egret, a Robin, an Owl, a Sparrow, an Eagle, a Falcon and a Road runner, which spells out HEROSEFR, He rose from the dead. I embedded the Apostles Creed into the subject matter of the Verse initials of Saint Luke!
In John I have an interlinear Polyglot for the Passion John Chapters 18 and 19. It is in Greek, Latin, and English and I used the Complutensian Polyglot of 1514-1517 as the text.
Sincerely,
James G. Pepper
Biblical Scribe