Images of cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine art: God's blueprint of creation
Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Jewish and Christian Reciprocal Influences; The Dura-Europos Synagogue and Baptistery; The Earthly and Heavenly Tabernacle/Temple in the Dura-Europos Synagogue; Chapter Two The Blueprint of Creation in the Bible and Its...
| Published in: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series |
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| Language: | English |
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Boston
Brill
2013
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Jewish and Christian perspectives series (25)
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| Series/Journal: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series
25 |
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Jewish art and symbolism
Themes, motives
B Judaism Relations Christianity B Art, Byzantine Themes, motives B Christianity and other religions Judaism B Cosmology in art B Jewish art and symbolism ; Themes, motives B ART ; Subjects & Themes ; Religious B Art, Byzantine ; Themes, motives B Judaism B Electronic books B Christianity B Interfaith Relations |
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| Summary: | Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Jewish and Christian Reciprocal Influences; The Dura-Europos Synagogue and Baptistery; The Earthly and Heavenly Tabernacle/Temple in the Dura-Europos Synagogue; Chapter Two The Blueprint of Creation in the Bible and Its Allegorical Interpretations; The Biblical Link between the Tabernacle and Creation; Philo of Alexandria and Josephus Flavius; Chapter Three Creation in Christian Works; Constantine of Antioch's "System of the World"; The Christian Topography's Schema of Creation. Perspective Imaging in Pantokrator 61-the Marginal Psalter from Mount AthosComparing the Four Conceptual Reflections; Chapter Eleven The Art of Memory: The Sanctuary, Its Sacrifices, and Its Cosmic Import; The Tabernacle and Its Vessels on the Frontispieces of Sephardi Bibles; The Cosmological Aspect of the Golden Menorah and the Showbread Table; The Encampment in the Desert as a Reflection of the Divine Pattern; Chapter Twelve Christian Supersession of Jewish Ideas; New Testament Cosmology: The Tabernacle and the Kingdom of Heaven; The Church as the Successor to the Tabernacle/Temple. The Apostolic Constitutions: A Link to a Shared Exegetical Method?The Octateuchs and Other Byzantine Artistic Expressions of Creation; Chapter Four Creation as Interpreted in Jewish Art; Visual Models of Creation in Ancient Synagogues; Midrashic Literature and the Symbolic Significance of the Tabernacle/Creation Parallelism; Chapter Five Visualizing Creation in a Fourteenth-Century Jewish Manuscript; The Sarajevo Haggadah's Visual Model of the Tabernacle/Creation; The Structural Frame of the Illustrations in the Sarajevo Creation Cycle. The book presents new figurative models of interchange between Judaism and Christianity. It demonstrates the nexus connecting the account of Creation and the Tabernacle using Jewish and Christian texts and artistic images from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages The Approach to Creation Cosmology in Mid-Thirteenth-Century SpainThe Sarajevo Haggadah's Creation Images in Light of Rabbinic Commentaries; Chapter Six The Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant; Christian Cosmological and Theological Concepts; Jewish Antecedents of the Ark/Tabernacle/Creation Symbols; Chapter Seven The Temple: History and Ideology; The Temple in Early Jewish Thought; Halakhic Developments after the Destruction of the Temple; Chapter Eight The Synagogue as a Minor Temple; Transferring Temple Symbols to the Synagogue. The Consecration of the Tabernacle and Its Significance for Synagogue LiturgyThe Role of the Rabbis in the Synagogue; The Temple Implements in Samaritan Synagogues; Chapter Nine Schematic Models: Forms of Visual Interpretation; Two Ways of Imaging the Tabernacle and the Holy of Holies; The Karaite Perception of the Temple and Its Implements; Chapter Ten Perspective Imaging of the Tabernacle; Perspective Imaging on the Gold-Glass Base; Perspective Imaging in the Christian Topography and the Octateuchs; Perspective Imaging in Codex Grandior and Codex Amiatinus. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 9004252193 |