No Graven Images : Studies in Art and the Hebrew Bible /
edited by Joseph Gutmann
- New York : Ktav Publishing House, 1971
- lxiii 599 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Iconolatary and iconoclasm. The 'second commandment' and the image in Judaism. Holy sanctuary implements. The decalogue in art -- A note on the temple menorah -- The temple miniatures in the Peter Comestor manuscript at Madrid -- Torah ornaments, priestly vestments, and the King James bible. Jewish legends and the origins of Christian art. Zum problem der anfange der at- illustration -- Images bibliques d'apamee et fresques de la synagogue de doura -- The resurrection in ezekiel xxxvii and in the dura-europos paintings -- Early Christian and Jewish art -- The illustration of the serpent -- The illustrated Jewish manuscript in antiquity: the prsent state of the question -- Ephraimillustration, haggadah und wiener genesis -- Jacob blessing the sons of Joseph from early Christian times to Rembrandy -- The water miracles of Moses in Jewish legend and Byzantine art -- The question of the influence of Jewish pictorial sources on old testament illustration -- The Jewish origin of the Ashburnham Pentatuech miniatures -- A Castillian tradition of bible illustration: the romanesque bible from san milan -- Samson uprooting a tree. Jewish bible illustrations. Yemenite bible manuscripts of the xvth century -- Judeo-Persian miniatures -- A masterpiece of Medieval Spanish-Jewish art: the Kennicott Bible -- Leviathan, Behemoth, and Ziz: Jewish Messianic symbols in art -- Chagall's Jerusalem windows. Polemics, economics, and old testament images. 'Cokkel in oure clene corn': some implications of Cain's sacrifice.
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Bible—Illustrations.Jewish art and symbolism.Arts in the Bible.