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Clothing Sacred Scriptures: Book Art and Book Religion in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Cultures

Clothing Sacred Scriptures: Book Art and Book Religion in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Cultures

Schellewald, Barbara
Ganz, David

Hardcover

Series: Manuscripta Biblica, Book 2

JudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 3110557673
ISBN13: 9783110557671
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Dec 3 2018
Pages: 321
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.20
Language: English

According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances.

The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of clothing sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience.

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