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Between Judaism and Christianity
Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher
Series: - The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 81
The nineteen essays assembled in this Festschrift represent the multiplicity of interests evident in Elisabeth (Elisheva) Revel-Neherâs work. They cover a variety of subjects dealing with pictorial messages encrypted in various artistic media, and address a broad array of topics: Jewish identity in the late antique period; patronage in late antique Jewish and Christian religious architecture; Jewish-Christian polemics and the representation of the âOtherâ; the question of Jewish or Christian illuminators of Hebrew books; the cultural background of illustrations in Hebrew manuscripts; Christian cosmology and dogma; the imagery of the Temple; and Jewish and Christian perceptions of women.
Contributors are Rivka Ben-Sasson, Walter Cahn, Evelyn Cohen, Andreina Contessa, Eva Frojmovic, Lihi Habas, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Colum Hourihane, Emma Maayan-Fanar, Herbert L. Kessler, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Shulamit Laderman, Mati Meyer, Bezalel Narkiss, Kurt Schubert, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Margo Stroumsa-Uzan, Rina Talgam.
Contributors are Rivka Ben-Sasson, Walter Cahn, Evelyn Cohen, Andreina Contessa, Eva Frojmovic, Lihi Habas, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Colum Hourihane, Emma Maayan-Fanar, Herbert L. Kessler, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Shulamit Laderman, Mati Meyer, Bezalel Narkiss, Kurt Schubert, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Margo Stroumsa-Uzan, Rina Talgam.
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ph.D. (1994, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) teaches at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva and is the author of Jewish Book Art Between Christianity and Islam (Brill, 2004) and Illuminated Haggadot from Spain (Penn State 2006).
Mati Meyer, Ph.D. (2002, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is a lecturer at the Open University of Israel and published extensively on gender aspects in Byzantine art, including An Obscure Portrait: Imaging the Everyday Life of Byzantine Women (in press).
Mati Meyer, Ph.D. (2002, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is a lecturer at the Open University of Israel and published extensively on gender aspects in Byzantine art, including An Obscure Portrait: Imaging the Everyday Life of Byzantine Women (in press).
Contents
Preface, Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer
Elisheva Revel-Neher, Ziva Amishai-Maisels
Part One: Late Antique Jewish Art
The Mosaics of the Nile Festival Building at Sepphoris and the Legacy of the Antiochene Tradition, Zeev Weiss
Fish-Ta(i)les: Jewish Gold Glasses Revisited, Rivka Ben-Sasson
Jewish Art in Late Antiquity: An Example of Jewish Identity, Kurt Schubert (d. Feb. 4, 2007)
Part Two: Early Christian Art
Jonas of Aquileia: A Gesture to Constantine the Great, Margo Stroumsa Uzan
Donations and Donors as Reflected in the Mosaic Pavements of Transjordanâs Churches in the Byzantine and Umayyad Periods, Lihi Habas
Johannes of Gazaâs Tabula Mundi Revisited, Rina Talgam
Part Three: Cultural Exchange Between Jews and Christians
Cosmology, Art and Liturgy, Shulamit Laderman
The Codex Scaligeri, Christian Topography, and the Question of Jewish Sources of Early Christian Art, Herbert L. Kessler
Notes on the Illustrations of Ezekielâs Temple Vision in the âPostilla litteralisâ of Nicholas of LyraWalter Cahn
Noahâs Ark and the Ark of Covenant in Spanish and Sephardic Medieval Manuscripts, Andreina Contessa
Purity and Impurity: The Naked Woman Bathing in Jewish and Christian Art, Sarit Shalev Eyni
She Who is Not Named: Pilatesâs Wife in Medieval Art, Colum Hourihane
Part Four: Byzantine Art
Eveâs Nudity: A Sign of Shame or Precursor of Christological Economy, Mati Meyer
Silenus Among the Jews? Anti-Jewish Polemics in Ninth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalters, Emma Fanar
Part Five: Hebrew Illuminated Manuscrips
Jewish Scribes and Christian Illuminators: Interstitial Encounters and Cultural Negotiation, Eva Frojmovic
The Scales in the Leipzig Mahzor: Penance and Eschatology in Early Fourteenth-Century Germany, Katrin Kogman-Appel
The Seal of Solomon the Scribe: The Illustrations of the Albenc Pentateuch of 1340, Bezalel Narkiss
The Hidden Couple: An Unexecuted Under-Drawing in the Catalan Micrography Mahzor, Dalia-Ruth Halperin
A Womanâs Hebrew Prayer Book and the Art of Mariano del Buono, Evelyn M. Cohen
List of Contributors
Index
Illustration Section
Preface, Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer
Elisheva Revel-Neher, Ziva Amishai-Maisels
Part One: Late Antique Jewish Art
The Mosaics of the Nile Festival Building at Sepphoris and the Legacy of the Antiochene Tradition, Zeev Weiss
Fish-Ta(i)les: Jewish Gold Glasses Revisited, Rivka Ben-Sasson
Jewish Art in Late Antiquity: An Example of Jewish Identity, Kurt Schubert (d. Feb. 4, 2007)
Part Two: Early Christian Art
Jonas of Aquileia: A Gesture to Constantine the Great, Margo Stroumsa Uzan
Donations and Donors as Reflected in the Mosaic Pavements of Transjordanâs Churches in the Byzantine and Umayyad Periods, Lihi Habas
Johannes of Gazaâs Tabula Mundi Revisited, Rina Talgam
Part Three: Cultural Exchange Between Jews and Christians
Cosmology, Art and Liturgy, Shulamit Laderman
The Codex Scaligeri, Christian Topography, and the Question of Jewish Sources of Early Christian Art, Herbert L. Kessler
Notes on the Illustrations of Ezekielâs Temple Vision in the âPostilla litteralisâ of Nicholas of LyraWalter Cahn
Noahâs Ark and the Ark of Covenant in Spanish and Sephardic Medieval Manuscripts, Andreina Contessa
Purity and Impurity: The Naked Woman Bathing in Jewish and Christian Art, Sarit Shalev Eyni
She Who is Not Named: Pilatesâs Wife in Medieval Art, Colum Hourihane
Part Four: Byzantine Art
Eveâs Nudity: A Sign of Shame or Precursor of Christological Economy, Mati Meyer
Silenus Among the Jews? Anti-Jewish Polemics in Ninth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalters, Emma Fanar
Part Five: Hebrew Illuminated Manuscrips
Jewish Scribes and Christian Illuminators: Interstitial Encounters and Cultural Negotiation, Eva Frojmovic
The Scales in the Leipzig Mahzor: Penance and Eschatology in Early Fourteenth-Century Germany, Katrin Kogman-Appel
The Seal of Solomon the Scribe: The Illustrations of the Albenc Pentateuch of 1340, Bezalel Narkiss
The Hidden Couple: An Unexecuted Under-Drawing in the Catalan Micrography Mahzor, Dalia-Ruth Halperin
A Womanâs Hebrew Prayer Book and the Art of Mariano del Buono, Evelyn M. Cohen
List of Contributors
Index
Illustration Section
Scholars and students of late antique and medieval art, Jewish studies, Byzantine studies, the cultural exchange between Judaism and Christianity and manuscript studies.