03540nam 22007211 450 991078537320332120121024145828.01-4725-4859-01-282-87674-097866128767451-4411-9056-210.5040/9781472548597(CKB)2670000000055329(EBL)601920(OCoLC)686773023(SSID)ssj0000421451(PQKBManifestationID)11271142(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421451(PQKBWorkID)10406279(PQKB)10987082(MiAaPQ)EBC601920(Au-PeEL)EBL601920(CaPaEBR)ebr10427206(CaONFJC)MIL287674(OCoLC)893335223(OCoLC)729030169(UtOrBLW)bpp09255393(PPN)25746445X(EXLCZ)99267000000005532920140929d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrJudaism and the visual image a Jewish theology of art /Melissa RaphaelLondon ;New York :Continuum,2009.1 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-350-13244-6 0-8264-9498-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-224) and index.Introduction -- 1. Approaches to Images in Jewish Art and Thought -- 2. Genesis 1 and the Creation of the Image -- 3. What does a Jewish Woman Look Like? Gender and Images of Jews in Art -- 4. Sublimity and Representation of the Holocaust in Art -- 5. Towards a Theology of the Holocaust Image -- 6. The Dancing Figure of Jewish History -- Bibliography -- Index."The widespread assumption that Jewish religious tradition is mediated through words, not pictures, has left Jewish art with no significant role to play in Jewish theology and ethics. Judaism and the Visual Image argues for a Jewish theology of image that, among other things, helps us re-read the creation story in Genesis 1 and to question why images of Jewish women as religious subjects appear to be doubly suppressed by the Second Commandment, when images of observant male Jews have become legitimate, even iconic, representations of Jewish holiness. Raphael further suggests that 'devout beholding' of images of the Holocaust is a corrective to post-Holocaust theologies of divine absence from suffering that are infused by a sub-theological aesthetic of the sublime. Raphael concludes by proposing that the relationship between God and Israel composes itself into a unitary dance or moving image by which each generation participates in a processive revelation that is itself the ultimate work of Jewish art."--Bloomsbury Publishing.AestheticsReligious aspectsJudaismHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in artJewish art and symbolismJews in artJudaism and artJudaismAestheticsReligious aspectsJudaism.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.Jewish art and symbolism.Jews in art.Judaism and art.296.3/77Raphael Melissa893308UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910785373203321Judaism and the visual image3736041UNINA