Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in the Greco-roman World:

Name: Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in the Greco-roman World:
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ISBN: 9789004238169

ISBN-10: 9004238166

ISBN-13: 9789004238169

Edition: 2012

Authors: Steven Fine

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This volume 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.

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Transliteration and Abbreviations


Preface


Introduction



"See, I Have Called the Renowned Name of Bezalel, Son of Uri…": Josephus's Portrayal of the Biblical "Architect"



A Note on Ossuary Burial and the Resurrection of the Dead in First-Century Jerusalem



Caligula and the Jews: Some Historiographic Reflections Occasioned by Gaius in Polychrome



"When I Went to Rome… There I Saw the Menorah": The Jerusalem Temple Implements in Rabbinic Memory, History, and Myth



Coloring the Temple: Polychromy and the Jerusalem Temple in Late Antiquity



Jewish Identity at the Cusp of Empires: The Jews of Dura Europos between Rome and Persia



"Epigraphical" Study Houses in Late Antique Palestine: A Second Look



Furnishing God's Study House: An Exercise in Rabbinic Imagination



The Jewish Helios: A Modest Proposal Regarding the Sun God and the Zodiac on Late Antique Synagogue Mosaics



Between Liturgy and Social History: Priestly Power in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues?



The Menorah and the Cross: Historiographic Reflections on a Recent Discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus



Jews and Judaism under Byzantium and Islam


Index