Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Biblical cycles
	→ Manuscripts → Bible moralisée → Oxford-Paris-London copy → Josue
	Old Testament
	→ Josue (A.V. Joshua) → Rahab and the Spies (Jos. 2) → Rahab asks for protection, is instructed to place a cord into her window (Jos. 2:16-20)
	→ Josue (A.V. Joshua) → The Crossing of the Jordan (Jos. 3:1 - 5:12) → God promises to exalt Joshua (Jos. 3:7)
	→ Josue (A.V. Joshua) → The Crossing of the Jordan (Jos. 3:1 - 5:12) → The priests carry the Ark into the Jordan (Jos. 3:14)
	→ Josue (A.V. Joshua) → The Crossing of the Jordan (Jos. 3:1 - 5:12) → The waters of the Jordan recede, standing at the side like mountains (Jos. 3:16-17)

	Further details
	1. Rahab asks for protection and is told to place a scarlet cord into her window; 2. God promises to exalt Joshua; 3. The priests carry the ark over Jordan; 4. The waters of Jordan stand like mountains at their side
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Paris
	DATE
	circa 1233
	LOCATION
	Oxford, Bodleian Library → Bodley 270b, fol. 95v
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Bible moralisée

	Notes on photograph
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 95

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