[E-BOOK] Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity: Historical Contexts of Jewish Art
✿ Lee I. Levine ✿
| #1717664 in Books | 2013-03-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.80 x7.30 x10.30l,3.55 | File Name: 0300100892 | 592 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent book, horrible illustrations.|By Rufus Fuscus|This is a great scholarly book by an expert with a long career in the field. However, the publisher has no shame: how can one print a book on art and iconography in which all the reproductions are tiny (stamp-size), black & white, and often almost impossible to see without a magnifying glass. The publisher owes the auth||"Breathtakingly learned; nothing else like it exists. Visual Judaism examines archaeological, epigraphical, and literary sources, and Jewish and non-Jewish culture and history to understand Jewish art in context. . . . Magnificent."—Richard Kalmi
A new type of Jewish art emerged in Late Antiquity, when artists produced visual depictions that had not existed earlier within a Jewish context—figural images (including pagan motifs), biblical scenes, and religious symbols. Visual Judaism locates this phenomenon in the wider context of Late Antiquity, revealing new insights into the role of visual culture in Jewish society, in which individual communities determined what forms of artistic expression wo...
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