دانلود کتاب Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus

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Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome: (An)Iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Iconoclasm in Josephus: Rhetoric and Reality......Page 16
Josephus Past and Present......Page 21
Josephus’ Vita: From Joseph ben Matthias to T. Flavius Josephus......Page 22
Josephus’ Nachleben: From Devious Quisling to Respected Roman Author......Page 24
Contributions of the Present Study......Page 31
2. Jewish Responses to Images in Cultural Context......Page 34
Quid Roma et Hierosolymis? The Sculptural Void of Early Roman Jerusalem......Page 35
Exegetical Stridency as Religio-Cultural Opposition......Page 46
Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide......Page 50
Aesthetic Preference and Regional Variation......Page 53
Idol Polemics in the Sculptural Environment of the Ancient Mediterranean......Page 60
Dissecting a Statue in the Epistle of Jeremiah......Page 64
Agalmatophilia and the Wisdom of Solomon......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 73
3. The Second Commandment in Josephus and Greco-Roman Jewish Literature......Page 76
The Second Commandment in the Hebrew Bible......Page 79
Reading the Second Commandment in Josephus......Page 84
Appearances in Exegetical Context......Page 85
Appearances in Narrative Context......Page 93
Reading the Second Commandment in Greco-Roman Jewish Literature......Page 95
Omitting the Prohibition of Images: Pseudo-Phocylides......Page 96
A Prohibition of Cult Images......Page 98
A Prohibition of Images In Toto: The Mekilta de R. Yishmael......Page 106
Conclusion......Page 111
4. Sculpture and the Politics of Space in Bellum Judaicum......Page 114
Temple–Jerusalem–Judea: Josephus’ Concentric Circles of Holiness......Page 117
Judea and Jerusalem as a Sculptureless Haven......Page 122
Athens: A “Forest of Idols”......Page 129
Rome: A City “Full of Gods”......Page 138
Sculpture, Space, and Identity in Greco-Roman Antiquity......Page 140
Space, Power, and Cultural Politics in Flavian Rome......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 149
5. Idealizing an Aniconic Past in Antiquitates Judaicae......Page 152
Ἀρχαιολογία and a Golden Age of Primitive Piety......Page 154
Idealizing an Aniconic Past in Greco-Roman Antiquity......Page 159
Aniconizing the Biblical Narrative in A.J. 1–11......Page 160
Aniconic Alterity and the “Evolution” of Mimesis......Page 168
The Piety of Primitive Aniconism......Page 171
Iconoclasm and Crises of πολιτεία......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 186
6. The Poetics of Idolatry and the Politics of Identity......Page 188
Appendix 1: Statuary Lexicon in the Josephan Corpus......Page 196
Appendix 2: The Second Commandment in Josephus......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 200
Index of Ancient Sources......Page 224
Index of Modern Authors......Page 236
Subject Index......Page 240