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Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome
(An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus

English · Hardback

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This book investigates the discourse on idolatry and images, especially statues, in the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, with a particular focus on his numerous accounts of a contentious and at times iconoclastic relationship between Jews and images. Placing this narrative material within a wider comparative context, both Jewish and non-Jewish, demonstrates that the impression of strict aniconism--uniform and categorical opposition to all figurative art--emerging from Josephus is in part a rhetorical construct, an effort to reframe Jewish iconoclastic behavior not as a resistance to Roman domination but as an expression of certain cultural values shared by Jews and Romans alike. Josephus thus articulates in this discourse on images an idea of Jewish identity that functioned to mitigate an increasingly tense relationship between Romans and Jews in the wake of the Jewish revolt against Rome.


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Jason von Ehrenkrook is Perlow Lecturer in Classical Judaism at the University of Pittsburgh.


Product details

Authors Jason Von Ehrenkrook
Assisted by Larissa Tracy (Editor), Jeff Massey (Editor), Automobile Association (Editor)
Publisher Brill Academic Publishers
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 05.03.2012
Subject Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism
 
EAN 9789004211711
ISBN 978-90-04-21171-1
Pages 226
Dimensions (packing) 16 x 23.9 x 1.8 cm
Weight (packing) 499 g
 
Series Sbl - Early Judaism and Its Li > 33
Subjects HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Religion - Judaism
RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice
 

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