Our Sacred Signs How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source

Name: Our Sacred Signs How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source
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ISBN: 9780813342979

ISBN-10: 081334297X

ISBN-13: 9780813342979

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Ori Soltes

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The art of the three Abrahamic religions--Christianity Judaism, and Islam--has a tangled, interwoven history. Symbols cross back and forth among the three faiths, adapted to reflect that faith's specific spiritual needs. And much of this symbolic language predates any of the Abrahamic faiths entirely. In Our Sacred Signs, Ori Soltes traces the inter-connectedness of religious symbols such as the Star of David, which isn't, it turns out, exclusive to Judaism at all. He shows that the various ways that Jesus is portrayed on the cross recall an artistic tradition that is in no way unique to Christianity. And he shows that religious architectural conventions as simple as the dome represent…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction : symbols of faith : art as an instrument of religion



Symbols in ancient art



Monotheism and the development of the Abrahamic traditions



Christian symbols from catacomb to cathedral



Jewish and Muslim symbols in sacred and profane contexts



The survival of symbols in a secularizing western world



Symbols of faith in twentieth-century visual art