ISBN10: 0826409369, ISBN13: 9780826409362, [publisher: CONTINUUM] Hardcover An encyclopedic collection of more than one thousand pictures, some in color, beginning with the imagery associated with Rome's victory in the Jewish War of 66-70 BCE which was to be influential for many centuries; in particular, from the time of Charlemagne onwards, Christian polemic against the Jews was reinforced in the statues and stained-glass windows of churches and cathedrals. The collection traces various themes which run through the pictorial representations: church and synagogue as allegorical personifications; the typological representation of Old & New Testaments; the hostile representations of Jews in the Old Testament, etc. Detailed commentary, bibliography. Spine is cocked.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]