Judaism And Christian Art

Author : Herbert L. Kessler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208366
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism and Christian Art written by Herbert L. Kessler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world. The thirteen essays in Judaism and Christian Art reveal that Christian art has always defined itself through the figures of Judaism that it produces. From its beginnings, Christianity confronted a host of questions about visual representation. Should Christians make art, or does attention to the beautiful works of human hands constitute a misplaced emphasis on the things of this world or, worse, a form of idolatry ("Thou shalt make no graven image")? And if art is allowed, upon what styles, motifs, and symbols should it draw? Christian artists, theologians, and philosophers answered these questions and many others by thinking about and representing the relationship of Christianity to Judaism. This volume is the first dedicated to the long history, from the catacombs to colonialism but with special emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, of the ways in which Christian art deployed cohorts of "Jews"—more figurative than real—in order to conquer, defend, and explore its own territory.

Author : Heinz Schreckenberg
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews in Christian Art written by Heinz Schreckenberg and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fist works to consider art as a serious source of historical knowledge about the Jews and the ideological constructs developed around them by Christian thinkers and artists, this "picture atlas" demonstrates in a way no text can how Jews were seen through Christian eyes.

Author : Katrin Kogman-Appel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171061
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Judaism and Christianity written by Katrin Kogman-Appel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume present a multi-faceted range of scholarship from late antique synagogues, Jewish funerary art, early Christian and Byzantine mosaics, to Byzantine and Jewish book art, and the representation of the Old Testament in Western manuscripts.

Author : Henry N. Claman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Images in the Christian Church written by Henry N. Claman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning in the Third Century with frescoes in the catacombs of Rome, public art began to illustrate the doctrine of supersessionism. This analysis of a millennium of Christian art outlines the path by which Christians reinterpreted the Hebrew Scriptures to prove they foretold the ascendancy of Christianity. Starting with a solid introduction to the origins of Christianity and the beginnings of Christian art in the catacombs of Rome, Henry Claman skillfully demonstrates the development of the anti-Jewish message of Christian art. The study culminates with analyses of the majestic cathedral at Chartres, the public burning of the Talmud in Paris in 1248, and the expulsion of the Jews from France and England."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Ori Soltes
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780813342979
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Sacred Signs written by Ori Soltes and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of the three Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—has a tangled, interwoven history. Symbols cross back and forth among the three faiths, adapted to reflect that faith's specific spiritual needs. And much of this symbolic language predates any of the Abrahamic faiths entirely.In Our Sacred Signs, Ori Soltes traces the interconnectedness of religious symbols such as the Star of David, which isn't, it turns out, exclusive to Judaism at all. He shows that the various ways that Jesus is portrayed on the cross recall an artistic tradition that is in no way unique to Christianity. And he shows that religious architectural conventions as simple as the dome represent early “pagan” traditions.The narrative—essentially a series of overlapping stories—moves through the halls of museums and off to the holy sites of the three religions, tracing the millennia-long artistic trail that has endured even as the West moved toward secularization in the last three hundred years.Soltes shows us how art has long been used as an instrument to take us where words cannot follow. Our Sacred Signs is a breathtaking and revelatory journey through human history, its gods, and its art.

Author : Michael Zell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520227417
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reframing Rembrandt written by Michael Zell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book embeds Rembrandt's art in the pluralistic religious context of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, arguing for the restoration of this historical dimension to contemporary discussions of the artists. By incorporating this perspective, Zell confirms and revises one of the most forceful myths attached to Rembrandt's art and life: his presumed attraction and sensitivity to the Jews of early modern Amsterdam."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jeffrey Spier
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300116830
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Bible written by Jeffrey Spier and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Kimbell Art Museum and shown there November 18, 2007 - March 30, 2008.

Author : David Nirenberg
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611687799
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies written by David Nirenberg and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that Christian anxieties about their own transcendent ideals made Judaism an important tool for Christianity, as an apocalyptic religionÑcharacterized by prizing soul over flesh, the spiritual over the literal, the heavenly over the physical worldÑcame to terms with the inescapable importance of body, language, and material things in this world. Nirenberg shows how turning the Jew into a personification of worldly over spiritual concerns, surface over inner meaning, allowed cultures inclined toward transcendence to understand even their most materialistic practices as spiritual. Focusing on art, poetry, and politicsÑthree activities especially condemned as worldly in early Christian cultureÑhe reveals how, over the past two thousand years, these activities nevertheless expanded the potential for their own existence within Christian culture because they were used to represent Judaism. Nirenberg draws on an astonishingly diverse collection of poets, painters, preachers, philosophers, and politicians to reconstruct the roles played by representations of Jewish ÒenemiesÓ in the creation of Western art, culture, and politics, from the ancient world to the present day. This erudite and tightly argued survey of the ways in which Christian cultures have created themselves by thinking about Judaism will appeal to the broadest range of scholars of religion, art, literature, political theory, media theory, and the history of Western civilization more generally.

Author : Pamela Anne Patton
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271053836
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of Estrangement written by Pamela Anne Patton and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the influential role of visual images in reinforcing the efforts of Spain's Christian-ruled kingdoms to renegotiate the role of their Jewish minority following the territorial expansions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Marcel Poorthuis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171509
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art, and Literature written by Marcel Poorthuis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains essays dealing with complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity, taking a bold step, assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as either rejection or appropriation