Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer -- Elisheva Revel-Neher / Ziva Amishai-Maisels -- The Mosaics Of The Nile Festival Building At Sepphoris And The Legacy Of The Antiochene Tradition / Zeev Weiss -- Fish-Ta(I)Les: Jewish Gold-Glasses Revisited / Rivka Ben-Sasson -- Jewish Art In Late Antiquity An Example Of Jewish Identity / Kurt Schubert -- Jonas Of Aquileia A Gesture To Constantine The Great / Margo Stroumsa Uzan -- Donations And Donors As Reflected In The Mosaic Pavements Of Transjordans Churches In The Byzantine And Umayyad Periods / Lihi Habas -- Johannes Of Gazas Tabula Mundi Revisited / Rina Talgam -- Cosmology, Art, And Liturgy / Shulamith Laderman -- The Codex Barbarus Scaligeri, The Christian Topography, And The Question Of Jewish Models Of Early Christian Art / Herbert L. Kessler -- Notes On The Illustrations Of Ezekiels Temple Vision In The Postilla Litteralis Of Nicholas Of Lyra / Walter Cahn -- Noahs Ark And The Ark Of The Covenant In Spanish And Sephardic Medieval Manuscripts / Andreina Contessa -- Purity And Impurity The Naked Woman Bathing In Jewish And Christian Art / Sarit Shalev-Eyni -- She Who Is Not Named Pilates Wife In Medieval Art / Colum Hourihane -- Eves Nudity A Sign Of Shame Or Precursor Of Christological Economy? / Mati Meyer -- Silenus Among The Jews? Anti-Jewish Polemics In Ninth-Century Byzantine Marginal Psalters / Emma Maayan-Fanar -- Jewish Scribes And Christian Illuminators Interstitial Encounters And Cultural Negotiation / Eva Frojmovic -- The Scales In The Leipzig Mahzor Penance And Eschatology In Early Fourteenth-Century Germany / Katrin Kogman-Appel -- The Seal Of Solomon The Scribe The Illustrations Of The Albenc Pentateuch Of 1340 / Bezalel Narkiss -- The Hidden Couple An Unexecuted Underdrawing In The Catalan Micrography Mahzor / Dalia-Ruth Halperin -- A Womans Hebrew Prayer Book And The Art Of Mariano Del Buono / Evelyn M. Cohen -- List Of Contributors / Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer -- Index / Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer -- Illustration Section / Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer.

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The nineteen essays assembled in this Festschrift represent the multiplicity of interests evident in Elisabeth (Elisheva) Revel-Neher’s work. They cover a variety of subjects dealing with pictorial messages encrypted in various artistic media, and address a broad array of topics: Jewish identity in the late antique period; patronage in late antique Jewish and Christian religious architecture; Jewish-Christian polemics and the representation of the “Other”; the question of Jewish or Christian illuminators of Hebrew books; the cultural background of illustrations in Hebrew manuscripts; Christian cosmology and dogma; the imagery of the Temple; and Jewish and Christian perceptions of women. Contributors are Rivka Ben-Sasson, Walter Cahn, Evelyn Cohen, Andreina Contessa, Eva Frojmovic, Lihi Habas, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Colum Hourihane, Emma Maayan-Fanar, Herbert L. Kessler, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Shulamit Laderman, Mati Meyer, Bezalel Narkiss, Kurt Schubert, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Margo Stroumsa-Uzan, Rina Talgam.