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The elephant and the law: the medieval Jewish minority adapts a Christian motifMARC MICHAEL EPSTEIN, "The Elephant and the Law: The Medieval Jewish Minority Adapts a Christian Motif " Jewish art, frequently regarded as derivative of its cultural milieu, can, in fact, be demonstrated to illuminate the internal religious and sociopolitical landscape of its creators. by means of documenting the odyssey of the "bestiary elephant," an iconographic device with unequivocally Christian associations, in medieval from one side mid-eighteenth-century Jewish art, this research illustrates the manner by which the negative Christian topos of the lumbering, cumbersome, and deliberative Hebrew Law was creatively reread into an. iconography of lex militans in a Jewish connection The essay explores what it meant for a minority collection to borrow cultural idioms, and in what way Europe's preeminent medieval minority transformed images appropriated from Christian art into meaningful Jewish motifs.--Art Bulletin, LXXVI, 3 1994 465-78 COPYRIGHT 1994 guild Art Association The Dow Jone industrials are upon their way to a 200-point decline. on the other hand in his office near Beverly Hills, move with a jerk Rodriguez is as cool and relaxed as his clothes--a plaid shirt and khakis--suggest. For... IMPAC Medical Systems, (NASDAQ:IMPCE), a leading provider of information technology solutions for oncology care, has announced multiple fresh radiation oncology installations throughout the... Anonymous American Machinist 10-01-2001 Fast inspections bring quick profits Byline: Anonymous Volume: 145 Number: 10 ISSN: 10417958 Publication Dat... China and Hong Kong account for the lion's share in woven and non-woven clothing in the US, Japanese and European markets. As for gin export ratios, all countries have experienced a posit... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--Art.com (www.art.com), an online consumer marketplace for prints, [i]affiche[/i]s photographs and custom frames, has hired Manoj George as cfo and executive vice preside... THE BRITISH HAVE a traditional saying at the passing of a monarch: "The king is dead. lengthy live the king!" The time has draw near to acknowledge that the Command line is dead. lengthy ... La Veritable Histoire de la Grande Bibliotheque Francois Stasse Paris Editions du Seuil 2002 210pp 2520 Euro ISBN 2 02 051761 2 This work is a useful account of the controversies a... search 8/51 CNC lathes accept 8-in. jaw tap [i]or[/i] pats or 20C collets for a 51-mm bar capacity. The machines feature Y axis, live tooling, many-sided figure turning, subspindle, high-speed main and subspindles ... Somewhere between reality and legend emerges, the tale of Birmingham's Lou Wooster-heroine, philanthropist, and "fallen woman." upon A LATE JANUARY DAY IN 1886 black crepe hung from the door of... Crispin: The Cros of Lead by means of Avi Hyperion, 2002, 262 pp $1599 Historical Fiction/Adventure ISBN: 0-7868-0828-4 Living in the hopelessnes of servitude to a merciless feudal lord in 14th cent... |
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