Gospels and Acts
Word Made Flesh (John Frontispiece)
The words from Colossians 1:15-20 emerge from the shadows. The Living Word steps from the darkness which recalls the chaos and nothingness of the Creation story and moves toward light and order. The texture behind and above the head of Christ is inspired from an image taken from the Hubble Space Telescope and lends a breathtaking cosmic character to the whole action taking place.
Tree of Life Carpet Page
Sally Mae Joseph used a series of stamps to create the Tree of Life carpet page which functions to transition the reader from the Gospel of Luke to the Gospel of John.
Word Made Flesh (John Frontispiece) and John Incipit, Scribe and Artist: Donald Jackson; John 1:31 – 2:14 and Call of the Disciples, and Tree of Life Carpet Page, Artists: Donald Jackson and Sally Mae Joseph; Scribe: Sally Mae Joseph, ©2002 The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition, © 1993, 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Offset Lithograph, high-quality 10-micron stochastic hybrid printing with fade-resistant ultraviolet inks, silver and gold foils, on acid-free uncoated 100% archival cotton Monadnock paper.