Shalev eyni (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. First Edition. Octavo. 199 pp. Color and b&w illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark gray boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets shows very light rubbing to corners. Touch of shelfwear to boards, and binding is sound and pages unmarked. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 10.60x7.40x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 296 pages. 10.25x7.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jews among Christians explores a corpus of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Lake Constance region produced in the first decades of the fourteenth century. The author Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provides a detailed and insightful study of the content, design, and iconography of the illustrations and decorations of a group of Ashkenahzi codices, thereby uncovering a surprising interface between Jews and Christians in the urban workshops of the time. Here, Christian artists would include midrashic components required by their Jewish instructor while drawing on the iconographic traditions of their Christian education, and artists of both religions were able to represent their own theological attitudes as well as profane tendencies and parody - in short, the various aspects of late medieval culture.A close comparison with the well-known Gradual of St. Katharinenthal, now in Zurich, and manuscripts such as the Schocken Bible, formerly in Jerusalem, and the Tripartite Mahzor -- originally bound as two volumes, but now split between Budapest, London and Oxford -- places the corpus firmly in the Lake Constance region and all but confirms the instructor to be one Hayyim, the scribe. The author's discussion of Hayyim's life and work and her historical overview of the relations between Jews and Christians in the final chapters of the book deepens our understanding of the religious and cultural dialogue between the two faiths not only in the production of this group of manuscripts but in the course of every-day life in the Middle Ages.…

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Zustand: New. 2010. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fifteenth-century Haggadah, with a prologue by a Dominican friar, offers a unique view of contemporary Christian perceptions of Judaism. This edition includes a facsimile of the codex; a critical edition and translation of the prologue; a translation of the haggadah; and essays describing the historical and theological background--.…