The sculptural environment of the Roman Near East: reflections on culture, ideology, and power/

Other Authors: Friedland, Elise A., Herbert, Sharon,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leuven ; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, c2008
Series:Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion (Peeters) 9
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245 1 4 |a The sculptural environment of the Roman Near East:   |b reflections on culture, ideology, and power/  |c edited by Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland, and Sharon Herbert 
260 |a Leuven ;  |b Peeters,  |c c2008  |a Dudley, Massachusetts: 
300 |a xxvii, 769 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 0 |a Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion (Peeters)  |v 9 
500 |a "All the contributions in this volume stem from an international conference that took place on November 7 to 10, 2004, at the University of Michigan and the Toledo Museum of Art"--Acknowledgements, p. [xxiii]. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-750) and index. 
505 0 |a Reconsidering Hellenism in the Roman Near East : introductory remarks / Glen Bowersock -- The nature of Syrian Hellenism in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods / Maurice Sartre -- The Jews in the Roman world / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Marble sculpture of the Roman period in the Near East and its Hellenistic origins / Gideon Foerster -- The sculptor's studio at Aphrodisias : the working methods and varieties of sculpture produced / Peter Rockwell -- The classical heritage in late antique Palestine : the fate of freestanding sculptures / Yoram Tsafrir -- The destruction of pagan statuary and Christianization (fourth-sixth century C.E.) / Frank R. Trombley -- The imperial cult in the East : images of power and the power of intolerance / John Pollini -- Statues on the wall : the representation of statuary in Roman wall painting / Eric M. Moormann -- Narrative and identity in mosaics from the late Roman Near East : pagan, Jewish, and Christian / Fergus Millar -- The missing pieces : miniature reflections of the Hellenistic artistic landscape in the East / Sharon Herbert -- Statues and inscriptions in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina / Werner Eck -- Baetyls as statues? : cult images in the Roman Near East / Peter Stewart -- Visualizing deities in the Roman Near East : aspects of Athena ad Athena-Allat / Elise A. Friedland -- Roman sculpture from the exedra in the Temenos of the Qasr al-Bint at Petra / Fawzi Zayadine -- Sculptures from southern Syrian sanctuaries of the Roman period / Thomas M. Weber -- The statues of the sanctuary of Allat in Palmyra / Michal Gawlikowski -- The role of sculpture in worship at the temples of Dura-Europos / Susan B. Downey -- Divine statues in the works of Libanius of Antioch : the actual and rhetorical desacralization of pagan cult furniture in the late fourth century C.E. / Ellen Perry -- Imagining an eastern Roman empire : a riot at Antoch in 387 C.E. / Raymond Van Dam -- Sculpture in Roman Palestine and its architectural and social milieu : adaptability, imitation, originality? : the Ascalon basilica as an example / Moshe L. Fischer -- Caesarean sculpture in context / Rivka Gersht -- Caesarea's fortune : ancient statuary and the beholder in a late antique city / Kenneth G. Holum -- Sculptures and sculptural images in urban Galilee / Z?ev Weisss -- Roman victory displayed : symbols, allegories, personifications? / Benjamin Isaac -- The desolating sacrilege : a Jewish-Christian discourse on statuary, space, and sanctity / Yaron Z. Eliav -- Idolatry in late antique Babylonia : the evidence of the Babylonian Talmud / Richard Kalmin -- The vitality of Egyptian images in late antiquity : Christian memory and response / David Frankfurter. 
650 0 |a Sculpture, Hellenistic  |x Congresses 
650 0 |a Hellenism  |x Congresses 
650 0 |a Idols and images  |x Congresses  |z Rome 
650 0 |a Idols and images  |x Worship  |x Congresses 
650 0 |a Judaism  |x History  |y Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.  |x Congresses 
700 1 |a Friedland, Elise A. 
700 1 |a Herbert, Sharon, 
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