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Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: An Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus - Couverture souple

Von Ehrenkrook, Jason

 
9781589836228: Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: An Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1589836227 ISBN 13 : 9781589836228
Editeur : Society of Biblical Literature, 2011

Synopsis

This book investigates the discourse on idolatry and images, especially statues, in the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, with a particular focus on his numerous accounts of a contentious and at times iconoclastic relationship between Jews and images. Placing this narrative material within a wider comparative context, both Jewish and non-Jewish, demonstrates that the impression of strict aniconism uniform and categorical opposition to all figurative art emerging from Josephus is in part a rhetorical construct, an effort to reframe Jewish iconoclastic behavior not as a resistance to Roman domination but as an expression of certain cultural values shared by Jews and Romans alike. Josephus thus articulates in this discourse on images an idea of Jewish identity that functioned to mitigate an increasingly tense relationship between Romans and Jews in the wake of the Jewish revolt against Rome.

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Éditeur
Society of Biblical Literature
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1589836227
ISBN 13 
9781589836228
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
242
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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