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The History of God
FIELD No. E184
Visual depiction of Matthew 3

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. IV · Monotheism

Matthew 3

Jesus rising from the Jordan River

the heavens splitting open, the Spirit of God descending like a dove on a column of heavenly light

Organization
Hebrew Bible Theophanies
Time period
Bronze Age – Iron Age (mythic / Genesis–Kings narrative)
Location
Levant / Ancient Near East

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Biblical Scenes (Genesis–Kings I) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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