Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Between Judaism and Christianity
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2009) 259-278
Keywords:
Bible In art
;
Jewish art
;
Antisemitism
;
Manuscripts
;
Christian art and symbolism
Abstract:
Discusses the caricaturing of the Jews (unusual for Byzantium) in illuminations in both the Chludov and Pantocrator Psalters. The two works differ in their representation of Jews. In the former, the Jews are viewed as historical enemies of Christianity and, hence, as less threatening than the contemporary Christian iconoclasts, who were presumably influenced by Jewish ideas. The Pantocrator Psalter, perhaps produced during the reign of Emperor Basil I, who tried to baptize Byzantine Jews by force, visually associates the Jews with pagans. Both Jews and pagans were caricatured at times in the form of a Silenus figure, a bald, old, creature with a contorted body. This image stressed the association of Jews with the evil of a pre- or non-Christian world, linked with the Christian concept of Hell.
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