If you’re looking for a beautiful, substantial gift to give for Christmas, consider a book on ancient Christian art. Here are some relatively recent releases:

Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art, which I review here.

The Treasures of Coptic Art in the Coptic Museum and Churches of Old Cairo, which I review here.

The Christian Catacombs of Rome: History, Decoration, Inscriptions, which I review here.

And, of course, Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols — to decode it all!