Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world : toward a new Jewish archaeology / Steven Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art and symbolism.

Synagogue art.

Synagogue architecture.

Judaism and art--History--To 1500.

Judaism and art.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.

Archaeology and religion.

Judaism--Talmudic period.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

Revised paperback edition.

Other Title:

Art & Judaism in the Greco-Roman world

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780521145671

0521145678

OCLC:

661216240