Seeing the god: image, space, performance, and vision in the religion of the Roman Empire
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Forms of Imagining Divine Presences and of Referring to Divine Agents -- Steven J. Friesen: Material Conditions for Seeing the Divine: The Temple of the Sebastoi at Ephesos and the Vision of the Heavenly Throne in Revelation 4-5 -- Anna-Kathar...
| Summary: | Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Forms of Imagining Divine Presences and of Referring to Divine Agents -- Steven J. Friesen: Material Conditions for Seeing the Divine: The Temple of the Sebastoi at Ephesos and the Vision of the Heavenly Throne in Revelation 4-5 -- Anna-Katharina Rieger: Imagining the Absent and Perceiving the Present: An Interpretation of Material Remains of Divinities from the Rock Sanctuary at Caesarea Philippi (Gaulanitis) -- Kristine Iara: Seeing the Gods in Late Antique Rome -- Jörg Rüpke: Not Gods Alone: On the Visibility of Religion and Religious Specialists in Ancient Rome -- Section 2: Modes of Image Creation and Appropriation of Iconographies and Visual Cues -- Richard L. Gordon: Getting it Right: Performative Images in Greco-Egyptian Magical Practice -- Marlis Arnhold: Imagining Mithras in Light of Iconographic Standardization and Individual Accentuation -- Robin M. Jensen: The Polymorphous Jesus in Early Christian Image and Text -- David L. Balch: Founders of Rome, of Athens, and of the Church : Romulus, Theseus, and Jesus. Theseus and Ariadne with Athena Visually Represented in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Section 3: Evocation of Specific Images in People's Minds -- Harry O. Maier: Seeing the Blood of God: The Triumphant Charade of Ignatius of Antioch the God-Bearer -- Annette Weissenrieder: Space and Vision of the Divine: The Temple Imagery of the Epistle to the Ephesians -- Brigitte Kahl: Citadel of the God(s) or Satan's Throne: The Image of the Divine at the Great Altar of Pergamon between Ruler Religion and Apocalyptic Counter-Vision -- Vernon K. Robbins: Kinetic Divine Concepts, the Baptist, and the Enfleshed Logos in the Prologue and Precreation Storyline of the Fourth Gospel -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 3161558596 |