Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images Before Iconoclasm

"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" --

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alexei M Sivertsev, Alexei M. Sivertsev, Alexei M. (Depaul University Sivertsev, Sivertsev Alexei M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009424530
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942453-0
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Jerusalem, Europe, RELIGION / General, Middle East, Christianity, Judaism, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, c 1 to c 500 CE, Religious subjects depicted in art, 6th century, c 500 to c 599, Religious and ceremonial art