The sculptural environment of the Roman Near East
Subtitle: reflections on culture, ideology, and power
By: edited by Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland, and Sharon Herbert.
Contributors: Eliav, Yaron Z.; Friedland, Elise A.; Herbert, Sharon, 1944-
Series: Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion -- 9; Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion -- 9.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leuven; Dudley, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 769
ISBN-13: 9789042920040
Subjects: Sculpture, Hellenistic -- Congresses.; Hellenism -- Congresses.; Idols and images -- Rome -- Congresses.; Idols and images -- Worship -- Congresses.; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "All the contributions in this volume stem from an international conference that took place on November 7 to 10, 2004, at the University of Michigan and the Toledo Museum of Art"--Acknowledgements, p. [xxiii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [679]-750) and index.
Table of contents: value: Reconsidering Hellenism in the Roman Near East : introductory remarks / Glen Bowersock; value: The nature of Syrian Hellenism in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods / Maurice Sartre; value: The Jews in the Roman world / Aharon Oppenheimer; value: Marble sculpture of the Roman period in the Near East and its Hellenistic origins / Gideon Foerster; value: The sculptor's studio at Aphrodisias : the working methods and varieties of sculpture produced / Peter Rockwell; value: The classical heritage in late antique Palestine : the fate of freestanding sculptures / Yoram Tsafrir; value: The destruction of pagan statuary and Christianization (fourth-sixth century C.E.) / Frank R. Trombley; value: The imperial cult in the East : images of power and the power of intolerance / John Pollini; value: Statues on the wall : the representation of statuary in Roman wall painting / Eric M. Moormann; value: Narrative and identity in mosaics from the late Roman Near East : pagan, Jewish, and Christian / Fergus Millar; value: The missing pieces : miniature reflections of the Hellenistic artistic landscape in the East / Sharon Herbert; value: Statues and inscriptions in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina / Werner Eck; value: Baetyls as statues? : cult images in the Roman Near East / Peter Stewart; value: Visualizing deities in the Roman Near East : aspects of Athena ad Athena-Allat / Elise A. Friedland; value: Roman sculpture from the exedra in the Temenos of the Qasr al-Bint at Petra / Fawzi Zayadine; value: Sculptures from southern Syrian sanctuaries of the Roman period / Thomas M. Weber; value: The statues of the sanctuary of Allat in Palmyra / Michal Gawlikowski; value: The role of sculpture in worship at the temples of Dura-Europos / Susan B. Downey; value: Divine statues in the works of Libanius of Antioch : the actual and rhetorical desacralization of pagan cult furniture in the late fourth century C.E. / Ellen Perry; value: Imagining an eastern Roman empire : a riot at Antoch in 387 C.E. / Raymond Van Dam; value: Sculpture in Roman Palestine and its architectural and social milieu : adaptability, imitation, originality? : the Ascalon basilica as an example / Moshe L. Fischer; value: Caesarean sculpture in context / Rivka Gersht; value: Caesarea's fortune : ancient statuary and the beholder in a late antique city / Kenneth G. Holum; value: Sculptures and sculptural images in urban Galilee / Zeʼev Weiss; value: Roman victory displayed : symbols, allegories, personifications? / Benjamin Isaac; value: The desolating sacrilege : a Jewish-Christian discourse on statuary, space, and sanctity / Yaron Z. Eliav; value: Idolatry in late antique Babylonia : the evidence of the Babylonian Talmud / Richard Kalmin; value: The vitality of Egyptian images in late antiquity : Christian memory and response / David Frankfurter.