Mosaics of Faith

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271060842

Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land

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By Rina Talgam
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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Mosaics of the Holy Land in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Mosaics in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods

Chapter 2: The Mosaics of the Late Roman Period

Part II: The Mosaics of the Holy Land in the Byzantine Period

Introduction

Chapter 3: The Compositional Trends in Floor Mosaics of the Byzantine Period

Chapter 4: The Stylistic Developments of Byzantine Mosaics

Chapter 5: The Church as the Heir of the Tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple

Chapter 6: The Synagogue as a “Lesser Temple”

Chapter 7: Samaritan Self-Determination

Chapter 8: The Mosaics in Secular Buildings

Part III: Mosaics of the Holy Land from the Muslim Conquest to the End of the Eighth Century

Introduction

Chapter 9: Church Mosaics

Chapter 10: Synagogue Mosaics

Chapter 11: Mosaics Under Muslim Patronage

Chapter 12: The Defacement of Images

Summary

List of Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index


“The volume is not only informative, creative, highly readable, but really beautiful. The numerous colour illustrations—the quality of which is always excellent—visualise well the author’s treatment. One can say this book is a gold mine of related photographs in every aspect of Palestinian mosaic culture.”

—Géza G. Xeravits, Biblische Notizen

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