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• There is an 11th Century Greek mosaic with Christ holding the Bible.
• In his La Escritura del Dios (The Writing of the God) Jorge Luis Borges writes about every book being a ramified labyrinth through which you can always get to the Book of Books.
• In early Renaissance master Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation, Archangel Gabriel appears before Mary when she is absorbed in reading the Bible, allegedly at the passage in Isaiah 7:14 that says, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.”
Every page of the book is describing the faith and destiny of the people on earth. The sculpture emphasizes an angel with the wings as butterflies representing an embodiment of the heavenly nature of her soul. She appears as both emerging from the Book of Books and merging with it.