عنوان

Jewish-Muslim Veneration at Pilgrimage Places in the Holy Land

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LA125122

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Jewish-Muslim Veneration at Pilgrimage Places in the Holy Land

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Pamela Berger

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

For millennia human communities have designated certain sites as sacred and nowhere more so than in the Holy Land. The Bible records that Canaanites worshipped in "high places," and the prophets railed against the Israelites for continuing the practice. Jesus castigated the Pharisees for adorning the tombs of the prophets. When Jews were expelled from Jerusalem, those who remained on the land did not abandon their devotion to the holy sites. When the Muslims arrived they continued the practice of visiting the tombs of those figures mentioned in both the Bible and the Quran. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern period Muslims and Jews wrote about their visits to these jointly-venerated tombs. Jews made illustrated scrolls, wall hangings, and other works of art depicting these sites, representing the shrines with prominent Islamic crescents on top, an indication that Jewish viewers felt no discomfort at the use of this iconography. The Jewish valorization of the Islamic crescent atop shrines common to Jews and Muslims reflects a relationship very different from that existing between the two cultures today. For millennia human communities have designated certain sites as sacred and nowhere more so than in the Holy Land. The Bible records that Canaanites worshipped in "high places," and the prophets railed against the Israelites for continuing the practice. Jesus castigated the Pharisees for adorning the tombs of the prophets. When Jews were expelled from Jerusalem, those who remained on the land did not abandon their devotion to the holy sites. When the Muslims arrived they continued the practice of visiting the tombs of those figures mentioned in both the Bible and the Quran. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern period Muslims and Jews wrote about their visits to these jointly-venerated tombs. Jews made illustrated scrolls, wall hangings, and other works of art depicting these sites, representing the shrines with prominent Islamic crescents on top, an indication that Jewish viewers felt no discomfort at the use of this iconography. The Jewish valorization of the Islamic crescent atop shrines common to Jews and Muslims reflects a relationship very different from that existing between the two cultures today.

Date of Publication

2011

Physical description

1-60

Title

Religion and the Arts

Volume Number

15/1-2

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5292

Subject Term

Art History

Subject Term

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

Subject Term

General

Subject Term

History

Subject Term

Holy Land

Subject Term

Jewish arts and crafts

Subject Term

pilgrimage

Subject Term

Religious Studies

Subject Term

shrines

Subject Term

tombs

Pamela Berger

Call Number

10.1163/156852911X547466

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[Article]

275578

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