Beyond The Graven Image
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Beyond The Graven Image
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Author : Lionel Kochan
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1998-11
Beyond The Graven Image written by Lionel Kochan and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11 with Religion categories.
From the archetypical story of Abraham smashing his father's household idols to God's commandment at Mount Sinai that "You shall have no other gods before Me," the prohibition in Judaism against the worship of idols has been unyielding. Idolatry is conceived as the antithesis to the worship of the invisible, unnamed, and articulate God. The proscription against using images in worship sets Judaism, together with Islam, apart from all other religious systems. In Beyond the Graven Image, Lionel Kochan sets out to explain the reasons for this prohibition and to demonstrate how influential this image-ban has been in determining key aspects of Jewish thinking. The Jewish conceptions of holiness and symbolism, our relationship with God, and the role of memory in religion, he argues, as well as the preference for non- material arts such as music over visual modes of artistic expression within Judaism, have all been profoundly shaped by the prohibition against physical representations of God.
Beyond The Graven Image
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Author : L. Kochan
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1997-04-28
Beyond The Graven Image written by L. Kochan and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-28 with Religion categories.
The biblical prohibition of images sets Judaism apart, together with Islam, from all other religious systems. This book attempts to explain the reasons for the prohibition - as well as its limits - and then shows how influential it has been in determining aspects of Jewish thinking in relation to such key concepts as holiness, symbolism, mediation between man and God, aesthetics and the role of memory in religion. Why is music the one art to which Judaism is hospitable? Is Judaism a religion of the ear rather than the eye? What is the real issue at stake in the age-old debate between Jerusalem and Athens? How do these issues relate to the iconoclastic movements in Byzantine Christianity and the Reformation? Lionel Kochan makes clear that to the prohibition of the graven image there is more than meets the eye.
Graven Images
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Author : Allan I. Ludwig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Graven Images written by Allan I. Ludwig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.
Judaism And The Visual Image
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Author : Melissa Raphael
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-02-19
Judaism And The Visual Image written by Melissa Raphael and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-19 with Religion categories.
The widespread assumption that Jewish religious tradition is mediated through words, not pictures, has left Jewish art with no significant role to play in Jewish theology and ethics. Judaism and the Visual Image argues for a Jewish theology of image that, among other things, helps us re-read the creation story in Genesis 1 and to question why images of Jewish women as religious subjects appear to be doubly suppressed by the Second Commandment, when images of observant male Jews have become legitimate, even iconic, representations of Jewish holiness. Raphael further suggests that 'devout beholding' of images of the Holocaust is a corrective to post-Holocaust theologies of divine absence from suffering that are infused by a sub-theological aesthetic of the sublime. Raphael concludes by proposing that the relationship between God and Israel composes itself into a unitary dance or moving image by which each generation participates in a processive revelation that is itself the ultimate work of Jewish art.
Graven Images
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Author : A. David Lewis
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-10-21
Graven Images written by A. David Lewis and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-21 with Social Science categories.
Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material—in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts—occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.
Graven Images
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Author : Paul Fleischman
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2014-08-05
Graven Images written by Paul Fleischman and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers. Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman's trio of eerie, beguiling short stories. If you whisper a secret into a wooden statue's ear, will anyone find out? Can a wobbly weathervane bearing the image of Saint Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, steer a love-struck apprentice toward the girl of his dreams? And if a ghost hires a sculptor to carve a likeness of him holding a drink to a baby's lips, what ghastly crime might lie behind his request? And, in a brand-new afterword, the acclaimed storyteller reveals how he found his own author's voice.
Graven Image
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Author : N. D. Hansen-Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Graven Image written by N. D. Hansen-Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with New Zealand fiction categories.
Book Two of The Grave Images Series In Grave Images, Jarron Marshall had made a scientific discovery, which nearly cost him his life. He quickly became caught in a power play between science and technology, but it wasnt the worst of the struggles that trapped him. Jarron had also begun to realise that power plays arent limited to the living. Now, Jarron would be the first to admit his perspective is twisted, and his outlook skewed. He's suffered some brain damage, but it hasn't affected his intellect, or his motor skills. Instead, it has opened the doors to a world he's never known - a world he doesnt want to know. One where the dead walk with the living, and the difficulty lies in keeping them apart. Hes doing his best to deal with it. To keep his questionable abilities sequestered, and his ghostly visitors from getting out of hand. Its all just a matter of control. Control he still doesnt have.
The Graven Image
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Author : Zainab Bahrani
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-09-16
The Graven Image written by Zainab Bahrani and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-16 with Social Science categories.
Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation—both in writing and in visual images—was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and supernatural ways. The Graven Image is the first book to explore this tradition, which developed prior to, and apart from, the Greek understanding of representation. The classical Greek system, based on the notion of mimesis, or copy, is the one with which we are most familiar today. The Assyro-Babylonian ontology presented here by Zainab Bahrani opens up fresh avenues for thinking about the concept of representation in general, and her reading of the ancient Mesopotamian textual and visual record in its own ontological context develops an entirely new approach to understanding Babylonian and Assyrian arts in particular. The Graven Image describes, for the first time, rituals and wars involving images; the relationship of divination, the organic body, and representation; and the use of images as a substitute for the human form, integrating this ancient material into contemporary debates in critical theory. Bahrani challenges current methodologies in the study of Near Eastern archaeology and art history, introducing a new way to appreciate the unique contributions of Assyrian and Babylonian culture and their complex relationships to the past and present.
Israeli Cinema
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Author : Miri Talmon
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Israeli Cinema written by Miri Talmon and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of the most visible and promising cinemas in the first decade of the twenty-first century, an intriguing and vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities. Yet two decades have passed since the last wide-ranging scholarly overview of Israeli cinema, creating a need for a new, state-of-the-art analysis of this exciting cinematic oeuvre. The first anthology of its kind in English, Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion presents a collection of specially commissioned articles in which leading Israeli film scholars examine Israeli cinema as a prism that refracts collective Israeli identities through the medium and art of motion pictures. The contributors address several broad themes: the nation imagined on film; war, conflict, and trauma; gender, sexuality, and ethnicity; religion and Judaism; discourses of place in the age of globalism; filming the Palestinian Other; and new cinematic discourses. The authors' illuminating readings of Israeli films reveal that Israeli cinema offers rare visual and narrative insights into the complex national, social, and multicultural Israeli universe, transcending the partial and superficial images of this culture in world media.
Lebanon Damascus And Beyond Jordan
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Author : William McClure Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Lebanon Damascus And Beyond Jordan written by William McClure Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Bible categories.