Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images Before Iconoclasm - Couverture rigide

Sivertsev, Alexei M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 100942453X ISBN 13 : 9781009424530

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Between the sixth and eighth centuries CE, the image emerged as a rhetorical category in religious literature produced in the Mediterranean basin. The development was not a uniquely Christian phenomenon. Rather, it emerged in the context of broader debates about symbolic forms that took place across a wide range of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups who inhabited the late Roman and early Byzantine world. In this book, Alexei Sivertsev demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as an important, and until recently overlooked, witness to the formation of image discourse and associated practices of image veneration in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Addressing the role of the image as a rhetorical device in Jewish liturgical poetry, Sivertsev also considers the theme of the engraved image of Jacob in its early Byzantine context and the aesthetics of spaces that bridge the gap between the material and the immaterial in early Byzantine imagination.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alexei M. Sivertsev is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. He was a recipient of the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, in residence at the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University in 2021, and the Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professorship at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in 2022. He is the author of several books, most recently, Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity (2011). His articles have appeared in Catholic Biblical Quarterly, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, and numerous collected volumes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 100942453X
• ISBN 13: 9781009424530
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 294
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