A Devotional Book

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This weeks reading has to do with a devotional book that belonged to a woman named Isabel de Byron. The author, Kathryn Smith, spends a lot of the reading describing the events in Jesus’ life depicted in this devotional book and also gives us the images to cross reference. Smith also pays close attention to the fact that there is a shortened version of the passion of Christ, which is narrated by Mary after his death, which is a mixture of two different texts. She seems to think that this devotional book is very interesting and slightly different than the normal ones, which can be clearly seen in the excerpts provided.
Upon reading, what made me really appreciate this devotional book more was the fact that it seemed to contain both biblical

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