Alexei M Sivertsev

Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images Before Iconoclasm

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Explores the rise of image as a rhetorical category in Jewish and Christian literature originating between the sixth and eighth centuries. This book demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as an important witness to the formation of image discourse and associated practices of image veneration" --

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781009424530
• ISBN-10: 100942453X
• Artikelnr.: 69116731

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Dissimilar Similarities
2. Jacob's Image: The History of a Late Antique Motif
3. Jacob's Dream and Relic Veneration
4. God's Impossible Form
5. Articulating the Impossible
Conclusions.