Judaism and the Visual Image: A Jewish Theology of Art

by Melissa Raphael

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1350132446

ISBN13:9781350132443

Release Date:September 2019

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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