Between Judaism and Christianity

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.

Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ph.D. (1994, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) teaches at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva and is the author of Jewish Book Art Between Christianity and Islam (Brill, 2004) and Illuminated Haggadot from Spain (Penn State 2006).
Mati Meyer, Ph.D. (2002, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is a lecturer at the Open University of Israel and published extensively on gender aspects in Byzantine art, including An Obscure Portrait: Imaging the Everyday Life of Byzantine Women (in press).