Title: Sculpting idolatry in Flavian Rome
Description: 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.
Subjects: Idols and images, Jews, Criticism and interpretation, Judaism, Idolatry, Hellenistic Sculpture, Worship, History, Post-exilic period (Judaism), Critique et interprétation, Hellenistisk konst, Idoles et images, Skulptur, Idololatrie, Judaïsme, Histoire, Historia, Religiösa aspekter, Sculpture hellénistique, Judendom
Places: Rome
People: Flavius Josephus
Time periods: Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D., 168 B.C.-135 A.D.