Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World

Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0521844916
ISBN-13 : 9780521844918
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Book Synopsis Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World by : Steven Fine

Download or read book Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World written by Steven Fine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World

Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 0521145678
ISBN-13 : 9780521145671
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Book Synopsis Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World by : Steven Fine

Download or read book Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World written by Steven Fine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Judaism During the Greco-Roman Period explores the Jewish experience with art during the Greco-Roman period-from the Hellenistic period through the rise of Islam. It starts from with the premise that Jewish art in antiquity was a "minority" or "ethnic" art and surveys ways that Jews fully participated in, transformed, and at times rejected the art of their general environment. Art and Judaism focuses upon the politics of identity during the Greco-Roman period, even as it discusses ways that modern identity issues have sometimes distorted and at other times refined scholarly discussion of ancient Jewish material culture. Art and Judaism, the first historical monograph on ancient Jewish art in forty years, evaluates earlier scholarship even as it sets out in new directions. Placing literary sources in careful dialogue with archaeological discoveries, this "New Jewish Archaeology" is an important contribution to Judaic Studies, Religious Studies, Art History, and Classics. The Revised Edition includes a new introduction, additional images, and color plates.

Aphrodite and the Rabbis

Aphrodite and the Rabbis
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781250085764
ISBN-13 : 1250085764
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Book Synopsis Aphrodite and the Rabbis by : Burton L. Visotzky

Download or read book Aphrodite and the Rabbis written by Burton L. Visotzky and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard to believe but true: - The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet - The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers - Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas - Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews - Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel - The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin - In Israel there were synagogues where the prayers were recited in Greek. Historians have long debated the (re)birth of Judaism in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple cult by the Romans in 70 CE. What replaced that sacrificial cult was at once something new–indebted to the very culture of the Roman overlords–even as it also sought to preserve what little it could of the old Israelite religion. The Greco-Roman culture in which rabbinic Judaism grew in the first five centuries of the Common Era nurtured the development of Judaism as we still know and celebrate it today. Arguing that its transformation from a Jerusalem-centered cult to a world religion was made possible by the Roman Empire, Rabbi Burton Visotzky presents Judaism as a distinctly Roman religion. Full of fascinating detail from the daily life and culture of Jewish communities across the Hellenistic world, Aphrodite and the Rabbis will appeal to anyone interested in the development of Judaism, religion, history, art and architecture.

Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period

Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 9781400852895
ISBN-13 : 1400852897
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Book Synopsis Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period by : Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough

Download or read book Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period written by Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish religion of the period was much more varied and complex than the extant Talmudic literature would lead us to believe, Goodenough offered evidence for the existence of a Hellenistic-Jewish mystic mythology far closer to the Qabbalah than to rabbinical Judaism. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 : 9789004438088
ISBN-13 : 9004438084
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Download or read book Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew V. Novenson, ed., Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity is a collection of state-of-the-art essays by leading scholars on views of God, Christ, and other divine beings in ancient Jewish, Christian, and classical texts.

Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue

Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781134673513
ISBN-13 : 1134673515
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Book Synopsis Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue by : Steven Fine

Download or read book Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue written by Steven Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways in which divergent ethnic, national and religious communities interacted with one another within the synagogue during the Greco-Roman period.

Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

Jewish Childhood in the Roman World
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Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9781107090170
ISBN-13 : 1107090172
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Book Synopsis Jewish Childhood in the Roman World by : Hagith Sivan

Download or read book Jewish Childhood in the Roman World written by Hagith Sivan and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.