Images of cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine art : God's blueprint of creation / / by Shulamit Laderman.

• Author: Laderman, Shulamith.
• Дата издания: 2013
• Язык: English
• Серии: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 25.
• Объем: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Примечания: Description based upon print version of record.

Does the design of the Tabernacle in the wilderness correspond to God’s blueprint of Creation? The Christian Topography, a sixth-century Byzantine Christian work, presents such a cosmology. Its theory is based on the “pattern” revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai when he was told to build the Tabernacle...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• 1. Jewish and Christian Reciprocal Influences
• 2. The Blueprint of Creation in the Bible and Its Allegorical Interpretations
• 3. Creation in Christian Works
• 4. Creation as Interpreted in Jewish Art
• 5. Visualizing Creation in a Fourteenth-Century Jewish Manuscript
• 6. The Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant
• 7. The Temple: History and Ideology
• 8. The Synagogue as a Minor Temple
• 9. Schematic Models: Forms of Visual Interpretation
• 10. Perspective Imaging of the Tabernacle
• 11. The Art of Memory: The Sanctuary, Its Sacrifices, and Its Cosmic Import
• 12. Christian Supersession of Jewish Ideas
• Epilogue
• Addendum
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• Illustrations.