Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian ArtPicturing the Bible explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A. D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images did these Christians use to express their faith openly? Were they the first believers to part with Mosaic law by creating graven images? What Jewish and pagan sources, if any, did they look to for