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Art, History, and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity explores the complex interplay between visual culture, texts, and their interpretations, arguing for an open-ended and self-aware approach to understanding Jewish culture from the first century CE through the rise of Islam. The essays assembled here range from the “thick description” of Josephus’s portrayal of Bezalel son of Uri as a Roman architect through the inscriptions of the Dura Europos synagogue, Jewish reflections on Caligula in color, the polychromy of the Jerusalem temple, new-old approaches to the zodiac, and to the Christian destruction of ancient synagogues. Taken together, these essays suggest a humane approach to the history of the Jews in an age of deep and long-lasting transitions—both in antiquity, and in our own time. ""Taken as a whole, Fine’s book exhibits the value of bridging disciplines. The historiographical segments integrated throughout this volume offer essential insights that will inform any student of Roman and late antiquity."" Yael Wilfand, Hebrew University, Review of Biblical Literature, 2014.

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Fine hat sein Versprechen, to project flesh and blood into three-dimensional spaces nicht nur fur die lost world in which those people thrived eingelost, sondern auch fur den modernen wissenschaflichen Diskurs, den er selbst mit der vorliegenden Aufsatzsammlung [...] mit grossem Erfolg befordert hat. - Jurgen Zangenberg, Leiden, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)

'Fine hat sein Versprechen, to project flesh and blood into three-dimensional spaces nicht nur fur die lost world in which those people thrived eingelost, sondern auch fur den modernen wissenschaflichen Diskurs, den er selbst mit der vorliegenden Aufsatzsammlung [...] mit grossem Erfolg befordert hat.' Jurgen Zangenberg, Leiden, Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)

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Steven Fine is professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. He is director of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project and of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies. Fine’s Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology received the Association for Jewish Studies’ Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in 2009.

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