Sculpting idolatry in Flavian Rome (an)iconic rhetoric in the writings of Flavius Josephus /

Ehrenkrook, Jason von.

Sculpting idolatry in Flavian Rome (an)iconic rhetoric in the writings of Flavius Josephus / [electronic resource] : Iconic rhetoric in the writings of Flavius Josephus Jason von Ehrenkrook. - Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2011. - xiv, 226 p. ; 23 cm. - Early Judaism and its literature / Society of Biblical Literature ; no. 33 . - Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 33. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-208) and indexes.

Reading idolatry in(to) Josephus -- Jewish responses to images in cultural context -- The second commandment in Josephus and Greco-Roman Jewish literature -- Sculpture and the politics of space in Bellum Judaicum -- Idealizing an aniconic past in Antiqitates Judaicae -- The poetics of idolatry and the poiltics of identity -- Appendix 1. Statuary lexicon in the Josephan corpus -- Appendix 2. The second commandment in Josephus.

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Josephus, Flavius--Criticism and interpretation.

--Worship.--Rome.--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D.--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Idolatry. Idols and images Idols and images Sculpture, Hellenistic. Jews Judaism