Jews, Christians, and the Discourse on Images before Iconoclasm

Alexei M. Sivertsev (DePaul University, Chicago)

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Cambridge University Press
08 February 2024

Religious subjects depicted in art; Christianity; Judaism

Between the sixth and eighth centuries CE, the image emerged as a rhetorical category in religious literature produced in the Mediterranean basin. The development was not a uniquely Christian phenomenon. Rather, it emerged in the context of broader debates about symbolic forms that took place across a wide range of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups who inhabited the late Roman and early Byzantine world. In this book, Alexei Sivertsev demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as an important, and until recently overlooked, witness to the formation of image discourse and associated practices of image veneration in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Addressing the role of the image as a rhetorical device in Jewish liturgical poetry, Sivertsev also considers the theme of the engraved image of Jacob in its early Byzantine context and the aesthetics of spaces that bridge the gap between the material and the immaterial in early Byzantine imagination.

By: Alexei M. Sivertsev (DePaul University Chicago)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781009424530
ISBN 10: 100942453X
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 08 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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.