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Jewish art in its late antique context
- Title
- Jewish art in its late antique context / edited by Uzi Leibner and Catherine Hezser.
- Publication
- Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- IX, 381 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 0721-8753 ; 163
- Uniform Title
- Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 163.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Congressen (vorm)
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Note
- This volume is the outcome of a joint British-Israeli conference on "Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context" that took place at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in December 2014 -- Preface.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Jewish art in its late antique context: an introductory essay / Catherine Hezser Uzi Leibner -- Part I. The development of Jewish art in the Roman-Byzantine period. Interpreting the uninterpreted: art as a means of expressing identity in early Roman Judaea / Orit Peleg-Barkat -- Why did Jewish art flourish in lare antiquity? / Lee I. Levine -- The Bet Alpha Synagogue mosaic and late-antique provincialism / Peter Stewart -- From wall paintings to floor mosaics: Jewish and Christian attitudes of figurative art / Rina Talgam -- Part II. Synagogue mosaic panels. Decorating the sacred realm: Biblical depictions in synagogues and churches of ancient Palestine / Zeev Weiss -- Rabbinic traditions and synagogue art / Uzi Leibner -- God's revelation through Torah, creation, and history: interpreting the zodiac mosaics in synagogues / Roland Deines -- Part III. Symbols and iconography. Why did the menorah and not the showbread table evolve into the most important symbol of Judaism? / Rachel Hachlili -- "For the Lord God is a sun and a shield" (Ps. 84:12): sun symbolism in Hellenistic Jewish literature and in Amoraic Midrashim / Catherine Hezser -- Celebrating the mundane: figural graffiti and daily life among Jews in the Levant / Karen B. Stern -- Part IV. Jewish and Christian art. Earliest "Christian" art is Jewish art / Markus Vinzent -- Competitive sacrifice: Christian visual engagement with Jewish sacrificial history and the temple in late antique Arabia / Sean V. Leatherbury -- The three Hebrew youths and the problem of the emperor's portrait in early Christianity / Robin M. Jensen -- The Rabbis on (the Christianisation of) the imperial cult: Mishnah and Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah 3:1 (42b, 54-42c, 61) / Holger Zellentin.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-9842
- ISBN
- 9783161543883
- 3161543882
- OCLC
- 950609034
- Title
- Jewish art in its late antique context / edited by Uzi Leibner and Catherine Hezser.
- Publisher
- Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 0721-8753 ; 163Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 163.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Leibner, Uzi, 1970- editor.Hezser, Catherine, 1960- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-9842