Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology

by Steven Fine

Book Overview

Art and Judaism During the Greco-Roman Period explores the Jewish experience with art during the Greco-Roman period--from the Hellenistic period through the rise of Islam. It starts from with the premise that Jewish art in antiquity was a minority or ethnic art and surveys ways that Jews fully participated in, transformed, and at times rejected the art of their general environment. Art and Judaism focuses upon the politics of identity during the Greco-Roman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521145678
• ISBN13: 9780521145671
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 10.9"