Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (2005 Fine), book

Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology (2005) is a book by Steven Fine.

Editions and translations

Published in Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Part One: "The 'Most Unmonumental People' of the World": **1. Modern Constructions of Ancient Jewish Art

Building an ancient synagogue on the Delaware: Philadelphia's Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and constructions of Jewish art at the turn of the twentieth century

• • 2. The old-new land: Jewish archaeology and the Zionist narrative
  • 3. Archaeology and the search for non-rabbinic Judaism
  • 4. Art history: textbooks and the rhetoric of Jewish artlessness
  • 5. Toward a new Jewish archaeology: methodological reflections
• Part Two: Art and Identity in the Greco-Roman World
  • 6. Art and identity in latter Second Temple period Judaism: the Hasmonean royal tombs at Modi'in
  • 7. Art and identity in late antique Palestine: the Na'aran synagogue
  • 8. Art and identity in diaspora communities in late antiquity: from Rome to Nehardea
• Part Three: Jewish "Symbols" in the Greco-Roman World
  • 9. Between Rome and Jerusalem: the date palm as a Jewish symbol
  • 10. "The lamps of Israel": the menorah as a Jewish symbol
• Part Four: Reading Holistically: Art and the Liturgy of Late Antique Synagogues
  • 11. Liturgy and the art of the Dura Europos synagogue **12. Synagogue mosaics and liturgy in the land of Israel
  • 13. Sanctity and the art of ancient synagogues
• Epilogue