Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology. By Steven Fine
It has long been customary to call Jewish culture “aniconic”, and consequently to see Jewish normative attitudes towards visual representation in contradistinction to the Christian artistic tradition (and even to its violent sister, iconoclasm). Kant praised the Jews for this; Hegel attacked them. S...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 614-616 |
| Review of: | Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2005) (Goldhill, Simon)
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| Summary: | It has long been customary to call Jewish culture “aniconic”, and consequently to see Jewish normative attitudes towards visual representation in contradistinction to the Christian artistic tradition (and even to its violent sister, iconoclasm). Kant praised the Jews for this; Hegel attacked them. Since the turn of the twentieth century, however, a paradigm shift has taken place. In archaeology, Sukenik and others uncovered a string of important decorated late antique synagogues of which Dura Europus is the most celebrated. The repeated use of signs of the Zodiac, narrative images from the Torah, and decorative designs from the Greco-Roman repertoire reveal a rich visual culture. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm022 |