Title: Sculpting idolatry in Flavian Rome : (an)iconic rhetoric in the writings of Flavius Josephus /
Authors: Ehrenkrook, Jason von.
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Josephus, Flavius Criticism and interpretation.; Idolatry.; Idols and images Worship.; Idols and images Rome.; Sculpture, Hellenistic.; Jews History; Judaism History
Abstract: 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. --from publisher description.
Contents: Reading idolatry in(to) Josephus -- Jewish responses to images in cultural context -- The second commandment in Josephus and Greco-Roman Jewish literature -- Sculpture and the politics of space in Bellum Judaicum -- Idealizing an aniconic past in Antiqitates Judaicae -- The poetics of idolatry and the poiltics of identity -- Appendix 1. Statuary lexicon in the Josephan corpus -- Appendix 2. The second commandment in Josephus.