عنوان

God Made Manifest:

شماره

LA119156

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

God Made Manifest:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Josephus, Idolatry, and Divine Images in Flavian Rome

نام نخستين پديدآور

Deborah L. Forger

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

After the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews lived under Flavian lords who peppered Rome's landscape with sculpted images of themselves, oftentimes suggesting that these images, and the emperors who stood behind them, functioned as gods in embodied form. This paper considers how these divine images impacted Jews, given that these same Jews lived under Roman authority yet also served the God of Israel alone. By analyzing Josephus's Antiquities 11.331-334 in light of Israel's strong anti-idolic tradition, I explore how the name of Israel's God, inscribed on the high priest's golden miter, may have functioned as visible counterpoint to the Flavians' graven images. It is widely assumed that first-century Jews viewed God as invisible, incorporeal, and utterly removed from the material realm, but for Josephus at least God's name offered a means by which Jews could gaze upon an aspect of their God in visible, perceptible, and material form. After the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews lived under Flavian lords who peppered Rome's landscape with sculpted images of themselves, oftentimes suggesting that these images, and the emperors who stood behind them, functioned as gods in embodied form. This paper considers how these divine images impacted Jews, given that these same Jews lived under Roman authority yet also served the God of Israel alone. By analyzing Josephus's Antiquities 11.331-334 in light of Israel's strong anti-idolic tradition, I explore how the name of Israel's God, inscribed on the high priest's golden miter, may have functioned as visible counterpoint to the Flavians' graven images. It is widely assumed that first-century Jews viewed God as invisible, incorporeal, and utterly removed from the material realm, but for Josephus at least God's name offered a means by which Jews could gaze upon an aspect of their God in visible, perceptible, and material form.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

231-260

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

51/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

anti-idolatry

اصطلاح موضوعی

divine images

اصطلاح موضوعی

Flavian Rome

اصطلاح موضوعی

God's name

اصطلاح موضوعی

Josephus

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Deborah L. Forger

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700631-BJA10008

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y