Rebirth and Afterlife: A study of the transmutation of some pagan imagery in early Christian funerary art

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Sr. Charles's paper in J.T.S. 1977, challenging the view that the earliest Christian art was a lay activity disapproved by the higher clergy, stirred up a storm. Against 'the hostility theory' she appeals to Clement of Alexandria and to representations of Christ as Orpheus or, uniquely in tomb M under St. Peter's, as Helios. A third image not in Clement, Noah's ark, is Jewish before becoming Christian.

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