Book Description
Demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as a witness to the formation of image discourse in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Author : Alexei Sivertsev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 100942453X
Demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as a witness to the formation of image discourse in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Author : Raʻanan S. Boustan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783161487538
"This study provides a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Special attention is paid to his ideas and activities during the years leading to the 1998 downfall of President Soeharto, and the development towards democracy that followed. Although many of these ideas have been embraced by significant sectors of official Indonesia, they have also received harsh criticism from the representatives of more conservative interpretations of Islam and, more recently, from secular Muslims as well."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Steven Bigham
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780974561868
For all iconophiles, that is, those who accept the dogma of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, but especially the Orthodox who claim that the icon has a sacramental and mystical character, it is naturally disquieting to hear the claim that the early Christians were aniconic and iconophobic. If this claim is true, the theology and the veneration of the icon are seriously undermined. It is, therefore, natural for iconophiles to attempt to disprove the thesis according to which the early Christians had no images whatsoever (aniconic) because they believed them to be idols (iconophobic). It is equally natural for iconophiles to want to substantiate, as much as this is possible, their deep intuition that the roots of Christian iconography go back to the apostolic age. This study weakens the notion and credibility of the alleged hostility of the early Christians to non-idolatrous images, providing a more balanced evaluation of this question.
Author : Willem J. van Asselt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004161953
In the history of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture, religious identity was not only formed by historical claims, but also by the usage of certain images: "images of God," "images of the others," "images of the self."This book includes a discussion of the role of these images in society and politics, in theology and liturgy, yesterday and today.
Author : Katherine Aron-Beller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1512824119
In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe. Through an analysis of folk tales, myths, legal proceedings, and religious art, Aron-Beller finds that narratives alleging that Jews committed violence against images of Christ, Mary, and the disciples flourished in Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries. She then explores how these narratives manifested differently across the continent and the centuries, finding that their potency reflected not Jewish actions per se, but Christians’ own concerns about slipping into idolatry when viewing depictions of religious figures. In addition, Aron-Beller considers Jews’ own attitudes toward Christian imagery and the ways in which they responded to and rejected—or embraced—such allegations. By examining how desecration allegations affected Jewish individuals and communities spanning Byzantium, medieval England, France, Germany, and early modern Spain and Italy, Aron-Beller demonstrates that this charge was a powerful expression of the Christian majority’s anxiety around committing idolatry and their eagerness to participate in practices of veneration that revolved around visual images—an anxiety that evolved through the centuries and persists to this day.
Author : Mike Humphreys
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004462007
Twelve scholars contextualize and critically examine the key debates about the controversy over icons and their veneration that would fundamentally shape Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity.
Author : Joseph Gutmann
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN :
Seven studies of iconoclasm.
Author : Sara Lipton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520921580
Around the year 1225, an illuminated Bible was made for the king of France. That work and a companion volume, the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Bible moralisée, are remarkable in a number of ways: they are massive in scope; they combine text and image to an unprecedented extent; and their illustrations, almost unique among medieval images in depicting contemporary figures and situations, comprise a vehement visual polemic against the Jews. In Images of Intolerance, Sara Lipton offers a nuanced and insightful reading of these extraordinary sources. Lipton investigates representations of Jews' economic activities, the depiction of Jews' scriptures in relation to Christian learning, the alleged association of Jews with heretics and other malefactors in Christian society, and their position in Christian eschatology. Jews are portrayed as threatening the purity of the Body of Christ, the integrity of the text of scripture, the faith, mores, and study habits of students, and the spiritual health of Christendom itself. Most interesting, however, is that the menacing themes in the Bible moralisée are represented in text and images as aspects of Jewish "perfidy" that are rampant among Christians as well. This innovative interdisciplinary study brings new understanding to the nature and development of social intolerance, and to the role art can play in that development.
Author : Mira Wasserman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0812249208
In Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals, Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Babylonian Talmud's most scandalous tractate. According to Wasserman, Avoda Zara is where this Talmud joins the humanities in questioning what it means to be a human.
Author : Robert Bonfil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1059 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004203559
Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world.