Art, history, and the historiography of Judaism in Roman antiquity
By: by Steven Fine
Series: Brill reference library of Judaism -- volume 34; Brill reference library of Judaism -- volume 34.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789004238169; 9789004238176
Subjects: Historiography; Spätantike; Judaism; Jews; History; Judentum; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: 1; title: "See, I Have Called the Renowned Name of Bezalel, Son of Uri ... ": Josephus's Portrayal of the Biblical "Architect" -- 21 -- 2; title: A Note on Ossuary Burial and the Resurrection of the Dead in First-Century Jerusalem -- 37 -- 3; title: Caligula and the Jews: Some Historiographic Reflections Occasioned by Gaius in Polychrome -- 51 -- 4; title: "When I Went to Rome ... There I Saw the Menorah": The Jerusalem Temple Implements in Rabbinic Memory, History, and Myth -- 63 -- 5; title: Coloring the Temple: Polychromy and the Jerusalem Temple in Late Antiquity -- 87 -- 6; title: Jewish Identity at the Cusp of Empires: The Jews of Dura Europos between Rome and Persia -- 101 -- 7; title: "Epigraphical" Study Houses in Late Antique Palestine: A Second Look -- 123 -- 8; title: Furnishing God's Study House: An Exercise in Rabbinic Imagination -- 139 -- 9; title: The Jewish Helios: A Modest Proposal Regarding the Sun God and the Zodiac on Late Antique Synagogue Mosaics -- 161 -- 10; title: Between Liturgy and Social History: Priestly Power in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues? -- 181 -- 11; title: The Menorah and the Cross: Historiographic Reflections on a Recent Discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus -- 195 -- 12; title: Jews and Judaism under Byzantium and Islam-- 215.