Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity

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BRILL, 10.10.2013 - 252 Seiten
Art, History, and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity explores the complex interplay between visual culture, texts, and their interpretations, arguing for an open-ended and self-aware approach to understanding Jewish culture from the first century CE through the rise of Islam. The essays assembled here range from the “thick description” of Josephus’s portrayal of Bezalel son of Uri as a Roman architect through the inscriptions of the Dura Europos synagogue, Jewish reflections on Caligula in color, the polychromy of the Jerusalem temple, new-old approaches to the zodiac, and to the Christian destruction of ancient synagogues. Taken together, these essays suggest a humane approach to the history of the Jews in an age of deep and long-lasting transitions—both in antiquity, and in our own time.

"Taken as a whole, Fine’s book exhibits the value of bridging disciplines. The historiographical segments integrated throughout this volume offer
essential insights that will inform any student of Roman and late antiquity." Yael Wilfand, Hebrew University, Review of Biblical Literature, 2014.
 

Inhalt

Introduction
1
Josephuss Portrayal of the Biblical Architect
21
Chapter Two A Note on Ossuary Burial and the Resurrection of the Dead in FirstCentury Jerusalem
37
Some Historiographic Reflections Occasioned by Gaius in Polychrome
51
The Jerusalem Temple Implements in Rabbinic Memory History and Myth
63
Polychromy and the Jerusalem Temple in Late Antiquity
87
The Jews of Dura Europos between Rome and Persia
101
A Second Look
123
An Exercise in Rabbinic Imagination
139
A Modest Proposal Regarding the Sun God and the Zodiac on Late Antique Synagogue Mosaics
161
Priestly Power in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues?
181
Historiographic Reflections on a Recent Discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus
195
Chapter Twelve Jews and Judaism under Byzantium and Islam
215
Index
229
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