Full Description
This book demonstrates the potential of material culture, including artworks and archaeological finds, to shed new light on Jewish-Christian interaction in medieval and early modern times. Previous studies have focused on areas where Jews lived as a minority under Christian rule, such as in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire. This book, on the other hand, explores the eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia, the Red Sea and India, where Jews and Christians interacted on a different footing.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1. "Material Encounters between Jews and Christians in the East: An Introduction," by Alexandra Cuffel, Zaroui Pogossian, and Bar Kribus
Part I: Armenia
Chapter 2. "Light Archaeology at Yeghegis Jewish Cemetery: Analysis and Interpretation," by Michele Nucciotti
Chapter 3. "The Jewish Tombstones at Yeghegis, Armenia and Their Sculptural Decoration," by Edda Vardanyan
Chapter 4. "New Iconographies of the Passion of Christ: the Jews in Two Armenian Miniatures of Vaspurakan," by Rachele Zanone
Part II: The Holy Land
Chapter 5. "Integrating Jew and Gentile through Visual Culture at Bethlehem's Nativity Church and in Jerusalem: Art, Messianic Covenant and Eschatology in the Latin Kingdom," by Lucy-Anne Hunt
Part III: South Arabia
Chapter 6. "Jews and their Relations with Christians in Pre-Islamic South Arabia (Fourth-Sixth Century)," by Iwona Gajda
Part IV: Ethiopia
Chapter 7. "Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish)—Ethiopian Orthodox Interaction in the Səmen Mountains of Northern Ethiopia: A View from the Betä Ǝsraʾel Monastic Center of Səmen Mənaṭa," by Sophia Dege-Müller and Bar Kribus
Chapter 8. "A Palace for the Hairy King—An Ethiopian Political and Religious Riddle," by Manuel João Ramos
Chapter 9. "Anti-Jewish Images in Ethiopian Christian Art from the Seventeenth Century Onwards: An Attempt at Interpretation," by Dorothea McEwan
Part V: India
Chapter 10. "Entangled Identities: Approaching Sacred Spaces of Premodern Kerala, South India," by Percy Arfeen-Wegner
Chapter 11. "The Lost Jew Town of Kochi," by Ophira Gamliel (Jammal), Meydad Eliyahu (Kallingal), Yehoshua Eliyahu (Palliparambil)
Index
