Judaism and the visual image : a Jewish theology of art / Melissa Raphael.
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 cre...
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Table of Contents:
- The second commandment in Jewish art and thought
- Genesis 1 and the creation of the image
- What does a Jewish woman look like? Gender and images of Jews in art
- Sublimity and representation of the Holocaust in art
- Towards a theology of the Holocaust image
- The dancing figure of Jewish history.