Jewish Glass and Christian Stone
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Jewish Glass and Christian Stone

A Materialist Mapping of the "Parting of the Ways"

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Jewish Glass and Christian Stone

A Materialist Mapping of the "Parting of the Ways"

About this book

In recent years scholars have re-evaluated the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared origins gave way to two distinct and sometimes inimical religious traditions. But this has been a profoundly textual task, relying on the writings of rabbis, bishops, and other text-producing elites to map the terrain of the "parting." This book takes up the question of the divergence of Judaism and Christianity in terms of material--the stuff made, used, and left behind by the persons that lived in and between these religions as they were developing. Considering the glass, clay, stone, paint, vellum, and papyrus of ancient Jews and Christians, this book maps the "parting" in new ways, and argues for a greater role for material and materialism in our reconstructions of the past.

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Information

Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780367594015
eBook ISBN
9781315474717
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: The geographies of identity
  11. 1 Mountains, valleys, and stones
  12. 2 Mountains: The construction of world religions
  13. 3 Valleys: Intersectional, material antiquity
  14. 4 Glass: The identities of things
  15. 5 Clay: The economics of belonging
  16. 6 Marble: Stories in stone
  17. 7 Paint: The hollowness of symbols
  18. 8 Vellum: “Relations” in miniature
  19. 9 Papyrus: The practice of text
  20. 10 The mountains from the valley
  21. Index