The Teabo manuscript : Maya Christian copybooks, Chilam Balams, and native text production in Yucatan / Mark Z. Christensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christensen, Mark Z., author.

Series:

Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies

The Linda Schele series in Maya and Pre-Columbian studies

Language:

English

Mayan languages

Subjects (All):

Chilam Balam de Teabo (Manuscript).

Manuscripts, Maya.

Mayas--Religion.

Mayas.

Christianity and culture--Mexico--History.

Christianity and culture.

Mayas--Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Mayas--Medicine.

History.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

xv, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Language Note:

Primarily in English, with some passages in Mayan with parallel English translation.

Summary:

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 or 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : colonial texts and Maya Christian copybooks

Creating the creation

Genealogies, parables, and the final judgment

Doomsday and the maya

Mary, Christ, and the Pope

Records of death and healing

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index.

ISBN:

9781477310816

1477310819

OCLC:

933211526