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new exhibition examines bizarre bible syndrome - news from ekklesia about jerusalem syndrome

new exhibition examines bizarre bible syndrome - news from ekklesia about jerusalem syndrome

By staff writers
10 Jan 2005

New exhibition examines bizarre bible syndrome -10/01/05

A bizarre mental syndrome that has seen scores of visitors to Jerusalem become convinced they are characters from the Bible is the subject of a new art exhibition, reports the Scotsman. The subject of the new exhibition by artist Nathan Coley is Jerusalem Syndrome
, a psychosis affecting people obsessed by the city who start to preach and behave as biblical characters, from King David to John the Baptist, the Virgin Mary and Jesus himself.

New exhibition examines bizarre bible syndrome -10/01/05

A bizarre mental syndrome that has seen scores of visitors to Jerusalem become convinced they are characters from the Bible is the subject of a new art exhibition, reports the Scotsman. The subject of the new exhibition by artist Nathan Coley is Jerusalem Syndrome
, a psychosis affecting people obsessed by the city who start to preach and behave as biblical characters, from King David to John the Baptist, the Virgin Mary and Jesus himself.

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