The sculptural environment of the Roman Near East : reflections on culture, ideology, and power / edited by Yaron Z. Eliav, Elise A. Friedland, and Sharon Herbert.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 9.
Other Authors: Eliav, Yaron Z.
Friedland, Elise A.
Herbert, Sharon, 1944-
Language:English
Published: Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2008.
Series:Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 9.
Subjects:
Sculpture, Hellenistic > Congresses.
Hellenism.
Idols and images > Middle East.
Idols and images > Worship.
Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:xxvii, 769 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Reconsidering Hellenism in the Roman Near East : introductory remarks / Glen Bowersock
  • The nature of Syrian Hellenism in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods / Maurice Sartre
  • The Jews in the Roman world / Aharon Oppenheimer
  • Marble sculpture of the Roman period in the Near East and its Hellenistic origins / Gideon Foerster
  • The sculptor's studio at Aphrodisias : the working methods and varieties of sculpture produced / Peter Rockwell
  • The classical heritage in late antique Palestine : the fate of freestanding sculptures / Yoram Tsafrir
  • The destruction of pagan statuary and Christianization (fourth-sixth century C.E.) / Frank R. Trombley
  • The imperial cult in the East : images of power and the power of intolerance / John Pollini
  • Statues on the wall : the representation of statuary in Roman wall painting / Eric M. Moormann
  • Narrative and identity in mosaics from the late Roman Near East : pagan, Jewish, and Christian / Fergus Millar
  • The missing pieces : miniature reflections of the Hellenistic artistic landscape in the East / Sharon Herbert
  • Statues and inscriptions in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina / Werner Eck
  • Baetyls as statues? : cult images in the Roman Near East / Peter Stewart
  • Visualizing deities in the Roman Near East : aspects of Athena ad Athena-Allat / Elise A. Friedland
  • Roman sculpture from the exedra in the Temenos of the Qasr al-Bint at Petra / Fawzi Zayadine
  • Sculptures from southern Syrian sanctuaries of the Roman period / Thomas M. Weber
  • The statues of the sanctuary of Allat in Palmyra / Michal Gawlikowski
  • The role of sculpture in worship at the temples of Dura-Europos / Susan B. Downey
  • Divine statues in the works of Libanius of Antioch : the actual and rhetorical desacralization of pagan cult furniture in the late fourth century C.E. / Ellen Perry
  • Imagining an eastern Roman empire : a riot at Antoch in 387 C.E. / Raymond Van Dam
  • Sculpture in Roman Palestine and its architectural and social milieu : adaptability, imitation, originality? : the Ascalon basilica as an example / Moshe L. Fischer
  • Caesarean sculpture in context / Rivka Gersht
  • Caesarea's fortune : ancient statuary and the beholder in a late antique city / Kenneth G. Holum
  • Sculptures and sculptural images in urban Galilee / Zeʼev Weiss
  • Roman victory displayed : symbols, allegories, personifications? / Benjamin Isaac
  • The desolating sacrilege : a Jewish-Christian discourse on statuary, space, and sanctity / Yaron Z. Eliav
  • Idolatry in late antique Babylonia : the evidence of the Babylonian Talmud / Richard Kalmin
  • The vitality of Egyptian images in late antiquity : Christian memory and response / David Frankfurter.