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Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome - (an)iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus (Hardcover)
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Sculpting Idolatry in Flavian Rome - (an)iconic Rhetoric in the Writings of Flavius Josephus (Hardcover)
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This book investigates the discourse on idolatry and images,
especially statues, in the writings of the Jewish historian Flavius
Josephus, with a particular focus on his numerous accounts of a
contentious and at times iconoclastic relationship between Jews and
images. Placing this narrative material within a wider comparative
context, both Jewish and non-Jewish, demonstrates that the
impression of strict aniconism uniform and categorical opposition
to all figurative art emerging from Josephus is in part a
rhetorical construct, an effort to reframe Jewish iconoclastic
behavior not as a resistance to Roman domination but as an
expression of certain cultural values shared by Jews and Romans
alike. Josephus thus articulates in this discourse on images an
idea of Jewish identity that functioned to mitigate an increasingly
tense relationship between Romans and Jews in the wake of the
Jewish revolt against Rome.
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