The Teabo Manuscript : : Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán / / Mark Z. Christensen.

Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and no...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Maps and Figures
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions of Transcription and Translation
  • INTRODUCTION. Colonial Texts and Maya Christian Copybooks
  • CHAPTER 1. Creating the Creation
  • CHAPTER 2. Genealogies, Parables, and the Final Judgment
  • CHAPTER 3. Doomsday and the Maya
  • CHAPTER 4. Mary, Christ, and the Pope
  • CHAPTER 5. Records of Death and Healing
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: The Teabo Manuscript
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index