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Mosaics of Faith - Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land (Hardcover)
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Mosaics of Faith - Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land (Hardcover)
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This monumental work provides a comprehensive analytical history of
the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Early Abbasid
mosaics in the Holy Land, spanning the second century b.c.e. to the
eighth century c.e. Previous general studies of the Holy Land
mosaics have focused on specific collections; in Mosaics of Faith,
Rina Talgam sets out to demonstrate how mosaic art constructed
cultural, religious, and ethnic identities in eras that shaped the
visual expressions of three monotheistic religions. Her examination
of the mosaics in a pivotal area of the eastern Mediterranean
sharpens and refines our understanding of the region’s societies
and their ideologies, institutions, and liturgies. Covering almost
one thousand years of mosaic production, Mosaics of Faith offers an
unprecedented view of the evolution of floor decorations from the
Hellenistic to the Roman periods, in the transition from Roman to
Early Byzantine art, and in the persistence of Byzantine traditions
under Umayyad rule. More than other corpora of ancient mosaics,
those from the Holy Land have generated greater awareness of the
intricate visual exchanges between paganism, Judaism, Samaritanism,
Christianity, and Islam. Talgam examines the mosaics’ formal
qualities in conjunction with the religious and cultural contexts
within which they were produced and with which they had a profound,
multidimensional dialogue.
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