List of Figures and Maps | p. IX |
Acknowledgments | p. XXIII |
Introduction | p. 1 |
List of Contributors | p. 13 |
Abbreviations | p. 17 |
Encompassing Hellenism: The Dynamics of Extended Cultures | |
Reconsidering Hellenism in the Roman Near East: Introductory Remarks | p. 21 |
The Nature of Syrian Hellenism in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Periods | p. 25 |
The Jews in the Roman World | p. 51 |
Origin, Production, and Fate | |
Marble Sculpture of the Roman Period in the Near East and Its Hellenistic Origins | p. 69 |
The Sculptor's Studio at Aphrodisias: The Working Methods and Varieties of Sculpture Produced | p. 91 |
The Classical Heritage in Late Antique Palestine: The Fate of Freestanding Sculptures | p. 117 |
The Destruction of Pagan Statuary and Christianization (Fourth-Sixth Century C.E.) | p. 143 |
The Imperial Cult in the East: Images of Power and the Power of Intolerance | p. 165 |
Two-Dimensional Landscapes: Re-Presenting Statues in Other Media | |
Statues on the Wall: The Representation of Statuary in Roman Wall Painting | p. 197 |
Narrative and Identity in Mosaics from the Late Roman Near East: Pagan, Jewish, and Christian | p. 225 |
The Missing Pieces: Miniature Reflections of the Hellenistic Artistic Landscape in the East | p. 257 |
Statues and Inscriptions in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina | p. 273 |
Engaging the Realm of the Gods | |
Baetyls as Statues? Cult Images in the Roman Near East | p. 297 |
Visualizing Deities in the Roman Near East: Aspects of Athena and Athena-Allat | p. 315 |
Roman Sculpture from the Exedra in the Temenos of the Qasr al-Bint at Petra | p. 351 |
Sculptures from Southern Syrian Sanctuaries of the Roman Period | p. 363 |
The Statues of the Sanctuary of Allat in Palmyra | p. 397 |
The Role of Sculpture in Worship at the Temples of Dura-Europos | p. 413 |
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. | p. 437 |
Urban Landscapes and Perceptions | |
Imagining an Eastern Roman Empire: A Riot at Antioch in 387 C.E. | p. 451 |
Sculpture in Roman Palestine and Its Architectural and Social Milieu: Adaptability, Imitation, Originality? The Ascalon Basilica as an Example | p. 483 |
Caesarean Sculpture in Context | p. 509 |
Caesarea's Fortune: Ancient Statuary and the Beholder in a Late Antique City | p. 539 |
Sculptures and Sculptural Images in Urban Galilee | p. 559 |
Social, Political, and Religious Discourses | |
Roman Victory Displayed: Symbols, Allegories, Personifications? | p. 575 |
The Desolating Sacrilege: A Jewish-Christian Discourse on Statuary, Space, and Sanctity | p. 605 |
Idolatry in Late Antique Babylonia: The Evidence of the Babylonian Talmud | p. 629 |
The Vitality of Egyptian Images in Late Antiquity: Christian Memory and Response | p. 659 |
Bibliography | p. 679 |
Index | p. 751 |
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