ISBN:
9780521844918 (hardback)
,
0521844916 (hardback)
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 267 p. :
,
ill. ;
,
28 cm.
Year of publication:
2005
DDC:
704.03/924038
Description / Table of Contents:
Building an ancient synagogue on the Delaware: Philadelphia's Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and constructions of Jewish art at the turn of the twentieth century -- The old-new land: "Jewish archaeology" and the Zionist narrative -- Archaeology and the search for "non-rabbinic Judaism" -- Art history: transmitting Jewish artlessness to new generations -- Toward a new "Jewish archaeology": methodological reflections -- Art and identity in latter Second Temple period Judaism: the Hasmonean royal tombs at Modi'in -- Art and identity in late antique Palestine: the Na'aran synagogue -- Art and identity in diaspora communities in late antiquity: from Nehardea to Rome -- Between Rome and Jerusalem: the date palm as a "Jewish symbol" -- "The lamps of Israel": the menorah as a Jewish symbol -- The Dura Europos synagogue and its liturgical parchment -- Synagogue mosaics and liturgy in the land of Israel -- Sanctity and the art of ancient synagogues.
URL:
Publisher description
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/be/academic/subjects/religion/judaism/art-and-judaism-greco-roman-world-toward-new-jewish-archaeology
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