Details

Description

xvii, 267 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-252) and indexes.

Contents

Building an ancient synagogue on the Delaware: Philadelphia's Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and constructions of Jewish art at the turn of the twentieth century -- The old-new land: Jewish archaeology and the Zionist narrative -- Archaeology and the search for non-rabbinic Judaism -- Art history: textbooks and the rhetoric of Jewish artlessness -- Toward a new Jewish archaeology: methodological reflections -- Art and identity in latter Second Temple period Judaism: the Hasmonean royal tombs at Modi'in -- Art and identity in late antique Palestine: the Na'aran synagogue -- Art and identity in diaspora communities in late antiquity: from Rome to Nehardea -- Between Rome and Jerusalem: the date palm as a Jewish symbol -- "The lamps of Israel": the menorah as a Jewish symbol -- Liturgy and the art of the Dura Europos synagogue -- Synagogue mosaics and liturgy in the land of Israel -- Sanctity and the art of ancient synagogues.

Subject

Jewish art and symbolism.

Synagogue art.

Synagogue architecture.

Judaism and art -- History -- To 1500.

Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.

Archaeology and religion.

ISBN

9780521844918 (hardback)

0521844916 (hardback)