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Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art: God's Blueprint of Creation

By Shulamit Laderman

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2013
ISBN
9004233245, 9789004233249
ISSN
1388-2074
Google Books ID
UMGdO8Z3krkC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22219787 bytes)
Series
Jewish and Christian Perspectives 25
Pages
xxii+318+54 Ill.\395
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-04-17 11:05:44
Религиоведение;Общее и сравнительное религиоведени

Description

Does the design of the Tabernacle in the wilderness correspond to God’s blueprint of Creation? The Christian Topography, a sixth-century Byzantine Christian work, presents such a cosmology. Its theory is based on the “pattern” revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai when he was told to build the Tabernacle and its implements “after their pattern, which is being shown thee on the Mount.” (Exod. 25: 40). The book demonstrates, through texts and images, the motifs that link the Tabernacle and Creation. It traces the long chain of transmission that connects the Jewish and Christian traditions from Syria and ancient Israel to France and Spain from the first through the fourteenth century, revealing new models of interaction between Judaism and Christianity.

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