by hadassah | Feb 13, 2016 | Judaism under Christian Rome
Iconoclasm, Steven Fine, BR 16:05, 2000. The delicate carving on the side of the sarcophagus depicts Zeus, in the guise of a swan, graphically forcing himself on the Spartan queen Leda. The scene is one of the best known in ancient Greek mythology, so its...
by hadassah | Feb 13, 2016 | Judaism under Christian Rome
New Mosaic Art from Sepphoris, Ehud Netzer & Zeev Weiss, BAR 18:06, 1992. The finds at Sepphoris continue to dazzle—from the theater now fully exposed to the major public buildings and miqva’ot (ritual baths) to the magnificent mosaics. Indeed, the...
by hadassah | Feb 7, 2016 | Judaism under Christian Rome
Christian and Jewish Views of the Holy Land, Aaron Demsky, BR 18:05, Oct 2002. The famous mosaic map in a church in Madaba, Jordan, and the not-so-famous mosaic inscription from an ancient synagogue near Tel Rehov, in Israel’s Beth-Shean Valley, reflect two...
by hadassah | Feb 7, 2016 | Judaism under Christian Rome
The Two Faces of Jesus – How the early church pictured the divine, Robert M. Jensen, BR 18:05, Oct 2002. In the upper reaches of the Church of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, just below the painted wood ceiling, appears a striking series of 26 mosaics...
by hadassah | Feb 3, 2016 | Judaism under Christian Rome
Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple, Jeffrey Brodd, BR 11:05, Oct 1995. Of the Roman emperors after Constantine, only Julian (331–363) rejected Christianity in favor of the pagan gods. A nephew of Constantine, the first Christian...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Judaism under Christian Rome
This description of the Persian conquest of Jerusalem in 614 C.E. shows that by this time, most of the inhabitants of the city were Christians. The terrible destruction wreaked by the Persians did not secure the city for them, and it soon fell again to Byzantine rule....
