Material Encounters Between Jews and Christians : From the Silk and Spice Routes to the Highlands of Ethiopia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kribus, Bar.

Contributor:

Pogossian, Zaroui.

Cuffel, Alexandra.

Series:

Jewish Engagements Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book demonstrates the potential of material culture, including artworks and archaeological finds, to shed new light on Jewish-Christian interaction in medieval and early modern times. Previous studies have focused on areas where Jews lived as a minority under Christian rule, such as in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire. This book, on the other hand, explores the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia, the Red Sea and India, where Jews and Christians interacted on a different footing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Chapter 1 MATERIAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE EAST AN INTRODUCTION

PART ONE ARMENIA

Chapter 2. Light Archaeology at Yeghegis Jewish Cemetery: Analysis and Interpretation

Chapter 3. The Jewish Tombstones at Yeghegis, Armenia, and their Sculptural Decoration

Chapter 4. New Iconographies of the Passion of Christ: The Jews in Two Armenian Miniatures of Vaspurakan

PART TWOTHE HOLY LAND

Chapter 5. Integrating Jew and Gentile through Visual Culture: Covenant and Eschatology at Bethlehem’s Nativity Church and in Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century

PART THREE SOUTH ARABIA

Chapter 6. Jews and their Relations with Christians in Pre-Islamic South Arabia (Fourth–Sixth Century)

PART FOUR ETHIOPIA

Chapter 7. Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish)–Ethiopian Orthodox Interaction in the Səmen Mountains of Northern Ethiopia: A View from the Betä Ǝsraʾel Monastic Centre of Səmen Mənaṭa

Chapter 8. A Palace for the Hairy King: An Ethiopian Political and Religious Riddle

Chapter 9. Anti-Jewish Images in Ethiopian Christian Art from the Seventeenth Century Onwards: An Attempt at Interpretation

PART FIVE INDIA

Chapter 10. Entangled Identities: Approaching Sacred Spaces of Premodern Kerala, South India

Chapter 11. The Lost Jew Town of Kochi

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781802701982

1802701982

OCLC:

1477998998