Iconoclasm and Iconoclash

Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

viii, 508 pp.,32 illustrated pp. (B/W & colour plates).

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Willem van Asselt is Associate Professor in Church History, Theological Faculty (Utrecht University).
Paul van Geest holds the chair of Augustinian Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (Tilburg University) and at the Theological Faculty of the Free University (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam.
Daniela Müller is full Professor in Church History at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (University of Tilburg).
Theo Salemink is Associate Professor in Church History at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (University of Tilburg).

Readership

All those interested in the History of Images

Reviews

'Der Band versammelt viele und anregende Studien unter dem weiten Titelthema. Die Sorgvalt der Beiträge und deren Zusammenstellung machen die Lektüre lohnend und entdeckungsreich. Der bildwissenschaftliche Ertrag bleibt allerdings überschaubar'
Philipp Stoellger, Theologische Literaturzeitung 135, 2010

INTRODUCTION

PART 1: WORD AND IMAGE: FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS

The Tension Between Word and Image in Christianity
Willemien Otten

The Dialectics of the Icon: A Reference to God?
Anton Houtepen

Word and Image in Christian Rituals
Gerard Rouwhorst

Seeing the Divine: a Holy Controversy
Alexander Even-Chen

Our Image of ‘Others’ and Our Own Identity
Daniela Müller

Idolatry and the Mirror: Iconoclasm as a Prerequisite for Interhuman Relations
Marcel Poorthuis

PART II: JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN DEBATES ON IMAGES UNTIL THE REFORMATION

Biblical Controversy: A Clash Between Two Divinely Inspired Messages?
Shulamit Laderman

Anthropomorphism and its Eradication
Shamma Friedman

Augustine’s Thoughts on How God May Be Represented
Paul van Geest

The Saint as Icon: Transformation of Biblical Imagery in Early Medieval Hagiography
Nienke Vos

‘Erant enim sine deo uero’. Iconoclash in Apocryphal and Liturgical Apostle Traditions of the Medieval West
Els Rose

Tangible Words: Some Reflections on the Notion of Presence in Gothic Art
Babette Hellemans

Cathars and the Representation of the Divine: Christians of the Invisible
Anne Brenon

The Clash Between Catholics and Cathars over Veneration of the Cross
Beverly Kienzle

Poor Building: The Case of the Friars Minor
Gerard Pieter Freeman

PART III: PROTESTANT REFORMATION AND CATHOLIC REFORMATION

The Prohibition of Images and Protestant Identity
Willem van Asselt

Aspects of Iconoclasm in Utrecht – Today and in the Past
Casper Staal

The Alphen Pig War
Jo Spaans

Papal Prohibitions Midway Between Rigor and Laxity.On the Issue of Depicting the Holy Trinity
Jan Hallebeek

PART IV: MODERN TIMES

The Politics of Representation: Prussian Monarchy and Roman Catholic Church in the Making of Saints During the 19th Century
Angela Berlis

Christ, Art and the Nation. The Berlin ‘Christ Exhibition’ of 1896 and the Search for a Protestant Identity in Wilhelminian Germany
Christopher König

The Written Icon Images of God in Modern Dutch Literature
Jaap Goedegebuure

The New Iconoclasm. The Avant-garde and the Catholic Church
Theo Salemink

Vandalism as a Secular Iconoclasm
Alexander Demandt

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Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art

Shulamit Laderman, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

The book presents new figurative models of interchange between Judaism and Christianity. It demonstrates the nexus connecting the account of Creation and the Tabernacle using Jewish and Christian texts and artistic images from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages.

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The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity

Emmanouela Grypeou, University of Oxford & Helen Spurling, University of Southampton

This volume examines the relationship between rabbinic and Christian exegetical writings on the book of Genesis in the Eastern Roman Empire and Mesopotamia, and illuminates the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.

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The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland

Ilia M. Rodov, Bar-Ilan University

The book explores the patronage, formation, and symbolism of the Renaissance Torah ark in Polish synagogues.

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Tertullian, On Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah

Stéphanie E. Binder, Bar-Ilan University

This work compares two third century texts on idolatry: Tertullian's De Idolatria and the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah, against the background of modern discussions of the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians.

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Salvation through Spinoza

David J. Wertheim

This study chronicles Spinoza’s German-Jewish popularity during the years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), explaining it from the political moral and intellectual paradoxes with which Weimar Germany confronted its Jews.

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Adam, Satan, and the King of Tyre

Hector M. Patmore, Protestant Theological University of the Netherlands

The oracle against the King of Tyre, found in Ezekiel 28.12-19, is a difficult text that inspired diverse interpretations in Late Antiquity. This book examines those interpretations and seeks to understand their origins and development.

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Establishing Boundaries

F.J.E. Boddens Hosang

Council texts from the eastern and western Mediterranean allow us to see how close relations were between Christians and Jews in late antiquity. These texts give precise descriptions of the continuing close relations between the ordinary faithful Christians and Jews on a daily basis.

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The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity

Edited by E. Grypeou & H. Spurling

This collection of essays examines exegetical encounters between Christians and Jews on the book of Genesis. Eminent scholars present outstanding studies on the subject of ‘Exegetical Encounter’ to illuminate the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.

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Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and Literature

Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, Joseph Turner (Eds.)

This volume contains essays dealing with complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity, taking a bold step, assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as either rejection or appropriation

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Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament

Bernard S. Jackson

These essays explore the Jewish background to central issues in the New Testament —letter and spirit, prophecy and law, forgiveness, the accounts of Jesus’ “trial(s)”, evidence required for legal/theological claims, the shepherding images, disinheritance, and teachings on marriage and divorce.