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The Teabo Manuscript - Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan (Hardcover)
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The Teabo Manuscript - Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan (Hardcover)
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Winner, LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, 2017 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 now The Teabo Manuscript introduces an additional
example of what Mark Z. Christensen terms a Maya Christian
copybook. Recently discovered in the archives of Brigham Young
University, the Teabo Manuscript represents a Yucatecan Maya
recounting of various aspects of Christian doctrine, including the
creation of the world, the Fall of Adam and Eve, and the genealogy
of Christ. The Teabo Manuscript presents the first English
translation and analysis of this late colonial Maya-language
document, a facsimile and transcription of which are also included
in the book. Working through the manuscript section by section,
Christensen makes a strong case for its native authorship, as well
as its connections with other European and Maya religious texts,
including the Morely Manuscript and the Books of Chilam Balam. He
uses the Teabo Manuscript as a platform to explore various topics,
such as the evangelization of the Maya, their literary
compositions, and the aspects of Christianity that they deemed
important enough to write about and preserve. This pioneering
research offers important new insights into how the Maya negotiated
their precontact intellectual traditions within a Spanish and
Catholic colonial world.
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