The Crescent on the Temple : The Dome of the Rock as image of the ancient Jewish sanctuary / by Pamela Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Pamela, 1940-2024.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).

Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem).

Jewish art and symbolism--Themes, motives.

Jewish art and symbolism.

Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)--In art.

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)--In art.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 367 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

Berger (Boston College) has assembled an ambitious survey of the images of the Dome of the Rock in Christian art. A sacred Muslim shrine, the Dome of the Rock was consistently interpreted by Christians and Jews as the Jewish Temple, despite the well-known destruction of the Temple in Roman times. The potency of the symbol of the Temple and its reinterpretation over the centuries in both Christian and Jewish art are described chronologically, beginning with the painting of the actual Temple, the building of the Dome of the Rock itself, then moving into re-interpretations in the art of Byzantium, the Crusades, European Renaissance, early Jewish books, and so on, concluding with 20th-century Mizrah, the wall hanging used in Jewish tradition to indicate the direction of prayer. The volume includes many color illustrations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 The Temple in Text, Imagery and Memory 1

2 Christian and Muslim Perspectives and Jewish Legends about the Temple 21

3 Building the Dome of the Rock 31

4 The Temple in the Guise of the Dome of the Rock in Architecture and Imagery before the Crusades 55

5 The Christianization of the Dome of the Rock 75

6 The Domed Temple in Romanesque and Gothic Art in the West and in the Holy Land 93

7 The Domed Temple from the Thirteenth to the Early Fifteenth Century in Italy 123

8 The Domed Temple in Renaissance Italy and in Early Printed Sources 149

9 The Circular or Polygonal Temple in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in the North 159

10 Muslim Depictions of the Temple of Solomon in the Guise of the Dome of the Rock 189

11 The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Jewish Manuscript Art and Early Printed Books 197

12 The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Pilgrimage Scrolls 225

13 The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Italian Itineraries, Ark Curtains, Esther Scrolls and Marriage Contracts 253

14 The Dome of the Rock as the Temple: Nineteenth Century Itinerary Sheets 271

15 The Dome of the Rock as the Temple in Cloth and Yam 289

16 The Dome of the Rock as Protective Image 301

17 The Waning of the Dome of the Rock as the Image of the Temple 313

18 The Dome of the Rock and the Temple in Our Time 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789004203006

9004203001

9004230343

9789004230347

OCLC:

780398334