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Author: Dr Shulamit Laderman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-06
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9004509585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This survey of ancient Jewish art traces Tabernacle implements and their iconographic development from the Second Temple period until late sixth century CE. It examines appearances of seven-branch menorah, Torah ark, and other motifs found in archeological discoveries of burial art synagogue decorations.
Author: Lee I. Levine
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780300100891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys Jewish visual culture in the Late Roman and Byzantine eras, including expression via figural images, biblical scenes and religious symbols.
Author: Uzi Leibner
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783161543890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steven Fine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-08
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521844918
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Author: Steven Fine
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9004238174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Art, History, and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity explores the complex interplay between visual culture, texts, and their interpretations, arguing for an open-ended and self-aware approach to understanding Jewish culture from the first century CE through the rise of Islam. The essays assembled here range from the “thick description” of Josephus’s portrayal of Bezalel son of Uri as a Roman architect through the inscriptions of the Dura Europos synagogue, Jewish reflections on Caligula in color, the polychromy of the Jerusalem temple, new-old approaches to the zodiac, and to the Christian destruction of ancient synagogues. Taken together, these essays suggest a humane approach to the history of the Jews in an age of deep and long-lasting transitions—both in antiquity, and in our own time. "Taken as a whole, Fine’s book exhibits the value of bridging disciplines. The historiographical segments integrated throughout this volume offer essential insights that will inform any student of Roman and late antiquity." Yael Wilfand, Hebrew University, Review of Biblical Literature, 2014.
Author: Shulamit Laderman
Publisher: Brill Research Perspectives in
Published: 2021-12-09
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9789004428577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This survey of ancient Jewish art traces Tabernacle implements and their iconographic development from the Second Temple period until late sixth century CE. It examines appearances of seven-branch menorah, Torah ark, and other motifs found in archeological discoveries of burial art synagogue decorations.
Author: Natalie B. Dohrmann
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0812245334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the contributors bring Jewish perspectives to bear on longstanding debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity.
Author: Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-02-06
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0520928946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.
Author: Sarah Pearce
Publisher: Journal of Jewish Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780957522800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Against the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the editorship of Sarah Pearce, skilfully explore different functions of images in relation to their prohibition by the Second of the Ten Commandments. The visual world of ancient Judaism often reflects a tense confrontation between Mediterranean, artful classical culture and the image-filled, yet law-inspired biblical literature. Readers will encounter a rich collection of objects and texts analysed in different contexts, from Solomon's Temple to late antiquity. The imageless God of monotheistic Judaism combated the polytheistic cults of Israel's neighbours with the use of symbols. Figurative, floral and geometrical embellishments of synagogues served as decoration and not for worship. Narrative biblical scenes in the Dura-Europos synagogue played an educational and political role in Jewish society on the outskirts of the Roman Empire. Antique Jewish art exercised a profound influence on medieval Islam and even on the modern Western visual world. This book is aimed at both the scholarly world and all readers interested in religion and art.
