Judaism and Christian Art (Ebook) von Herbert L. Kessler

Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world.

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Introduction
—David Nirenberg
Chapter 1. "Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded": Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman
—Genealogies in Early Christian Art
—Jaś Elsner
Chapter 2. Unfeigned Witness: Jews, Matter, and Vision in Twelfth-Century Christian Art
—Sara Lipton
Chapter 3. Shaded with Dust: Jewish Eyes on Christian Art
—Herbert L. Kessler
Chapter 4. Iudeus sacer: Life, Law, and Identity in the "State of Exception" Called "Marian Miracle"
—Francisco Prado-Vilar
Chapter 5. Abraham Circumcises Himself: A Scene at the Endgame of Jewish Utility to Christian Art
—Marcia Kupfer
Chapter 6. Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut
—Achim Timmermann
Chapter 7. Jewish Carnality, Christian Guilt, and Eucharistic Peril in the Rotterdam-Berlin Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament
—Mitchell B. Merback
Chapter 8. The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice
—Dana E. Katz
Chapter 9. Through a Glass Darkly: Paths to Salvation in Spanish Painting at the Outset of the Inquisition
—Felipe Pereda
Chapter 10. Renaissance Naturalism and the Jewish Bible: Ferrara, Brescia, Bergamo, 1520-1540
—Stephen J. Campbell
Chapter 11. Poussin's Useless Treasures
—Richard Neer
Chapter 12. Eugène Delacroix's Jewish Wedding and the Medium of Painting
—Ralph Ubl
Chapter 13. The Judaism of Christian Art
—David Nirenberg

List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments