Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world: toward a new Jewish archaeology/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York:
Cambridge University Press,
c2010
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. "The 'most unmonumental people' of the world" : modern constructions of ancient Jewish art
- Building an ancient synagogue on the Delaware : Philadelphia's Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and constructions of Jewish art at the turn of the twentieth century
- The old-new land : Jewish archaeology and the Zionist narrative
- Archaeology and the search for nonrabbinic Judaism
- Art history : textbooks and the rhetoric of Jewish artlessness
- Toward a new Jewish archaeology : methodological reflections
- Pt. 2. Art and identity in the Greco-Roman world
- Art and identity in latter Second Temple period Judaism : the Hasmonean royal tombs at Modi'in
- Art and identity in late antique Palestine : the Na'aran synagogue
- Art and identity in diaspora communities in late antiquity : from Rome to Nehardea
- Pt. 3. Jewish "symbols" in the Greco-Roman world
- Between Rome and Jerusalem : the date palm as a Jewish symbol
- "The lamps of Israel" : the menorah as a Jewish symbol
- Pt. 4. Reading holistically : art and the liturgy of late antique synagogues
- Liturgy and the art of the Dura Europos synagogue
- Synagogue mosaics and liturgy in the land of Israel
- Sanctity and the art of ancient synagogues.