Material Encounters between Jews and Christians: From the Silk and Spice Routes to the Highlands of Ethiopia

Bar Kribus; Zaroui Pogossian; Alexandra Cuffel

doi:10.2307/jj.22361585

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-64189-387-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-80270-198-2
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Series: Jewish Engagements
Language: English
Pages: 338
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Table of contents No access
2. List of Illustrations No access
Chapter 1. Material Encounters between Jews and Christians in the East: An Introduction No access Pages 1 - 42
Authors:
1. Authors:
  1. Introduction No access
  2. Material Aspects No access
  3. Results No access
  4. Conclusions: Why Yeghegis and Why Exactly in Yeghegis? In Search of a Possible Interpretation No access
  5. References No access
2. Authors:
  1. Introduction No access
  2. Tombstones with Decorative Rosettes No access
  3. Tombstone with Zoomorphic Images No access
  4. Tombstone with Geometric Ornaments No access
  5. Tombstone with Architectural Structures No access
  6. Conclusions No access
  7. References No access
3. Authors:
  1. Conclusions No access
  2. References No access
1. Authors:
  1. 1. The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem No access
    2. Selected Painted Scenes in the Narthex Chapel, Interpreted Eschatologically and Politically No access
    3. The Melisende Psalter No access
  2. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre No access
  3. The Templum Domini No access
  4. 1. Prophecy and Covenant: The Prophet Isaiah and God’s Two Covenantal Commitments to Judah No access
  5. 1. The Magi and Connections: Links with Ancient Mesopotamia and Babylon No access
    2. Genealogy and Covenant: The Davidic Genealogy of Christ and the Covenantal Adoption of Gentiles as Children of Abraham No access
  6. The Fulfilment of the Prophecy of Gentiles: Balaam and Cumaean Sibyl in the Tree of Jesse No access
  7. Conclusions No access
  8. References No access
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  1. 1. The Political and Religious Landscape of Ancient South Arabia before the Emergence of Monotheisms No access
    2. Sketch of Monotheisms in Ancient South Arabia No access
  2. 1. First Mentions of Jews and Christians No access
    2. Epigraphic Evidence No access
    3. Other Evidence from Material Culture No access
  3. 1. Diaspora Jews No access
    2. Diaspora Jews and Proselytes No access
    3. The Nature of the Dominant Monotheism: Judaism, but a Special Kind of Judaism No access
  4. 1. Relations between Jews and Christians according to Diverse Sources No access
    2. 1. South Arabian Inscriptions No access
      2. Ethiopian Inscriptions No access
    3. 1. Hagiographic Sources No access
  5. Conclusion: Conflicts between Jews and Christians. Critical Approach No access
  6. 1. An Object Decorated with Menorot, with a South Arabian Inscription No access
    2. Interpretation and Comparisons No access
    3. Inscription IG—PC 1 No access
    4. General Commentary No access
    5. Inscription CIH 543 No access
    6. Commentary No access
    7. Sigla of the Cited Inscriptions No access
  7. References No access
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  1. Introduction: Səmen Mənaṭa as a Unique Test-Case for Jewish–Christian Interaction No access
  2. Concepts of Holy Sites and Sacred Space among the Betä Ǝsraʾel No access
  3. The Religious Centre of Səmen Mənaṭa: A Brief Overview No access
  4. Towards an Understanding of the Symbolism of Səmen Mənaṭa in the Eyes of the Community No access
  5. Accounts of Jewish–Christian Interaction in Səmen Mənaṭa No access
  6. Səmen Mənaṭa as a Test-Case for the Spatial Layout, Networks, Sacred Geography, and Roles of Betä Ǝsraʾel Religious Centres No access
  7. Conclusions No access
  8. References No access
2. Authors:
  1. On the Fervours of Classification No access
  2. On the Dangers of Essentialization No access
  3. On the Musings of Appropriation No access
  4. On the Anxieties of Assimilation No access
  5. References No access
3. Authors:
  1. A Brief Outline of Judaism and Christianity in Ethiopia No access
  2. The Task of Paintings No access
  3. Examples of Depictions of Jews by Christian Painters in Europe and Ethiopia No access
  4. Preliminary Findings No access
  5. References No access
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  1. Introduction: Setting the Context No access
  2. Śāstra Literature No access
  3. Contextualizing “Sacred Space” No access
  4. 1. Aṣṭadikpāla—The Guardians of the Eight Directions No access
  5. Layout of Kerala Sacred Spaces: Expansion and a New Puruṣa? No access
  6. Conclusion: Moving Forward No access
  7. Acknowledgements No access
  8. References No access
2. Authors:
  1. Jewish History in Kerala at a Glance No access
  2. Three Hebrew Stone Inscriptions and the Kadavumbagam Synagogue No access
  3. Historical Ghosts, Erasures, and Distortions No access
  4. The Erased Tekkumbagam Synagogue and Castilian Connections No access
  5. Erased Cemeteries and Migrating Tombstones No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. References No access
Index No access Pages 319 - 322