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A radical critique of contemporary legal practices and understandings based on a new consideration of Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence"

Law --- Philosophy. --- Benjamin, Walter, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ten commandments --- Images.

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The Reformation of the Decalogue tells two important but previously untold stories: of how the English Reformation transformed the meaning of the Ten Commandments, and of the ways in which the Ten Commandments helped to shape the English Reformation itself. Adopting a thematic structure, it contributes new insights to the history of the English Reformation, covering topics such as monarchy and law, sin and salvation, and Puritanism and popular religion. It includes, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of surviving Elizabethan and Early Stuart 'commandment boards' in parish churches, and presents a series of ten case studies on the Commandments themselves, exploring their shifting meanings and significance in the hands of Protestant reformers. Willis combines history, theology, art history and musicology, alongside literary and cultural studies, to explore this surprisingly neglected but significant topic in a work that refines our understanding of British history from the 1480s to 1625.

Reformation --- English Reformation --- Ten commandments. --- Bible. --- Commandments, Ten --- Decalogue --- Great Britain --- Church history. --- England --- Church history

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Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Ten commandments --- Bible. --- Commandments, Ten --- Decalogue --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- United States --- Moral conditions.

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Sabbath. --- Lord's Day --- Shabbat --- Rest --- Sunday --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Judaism --- Ten commandments --- Bible. --- Commandments, Ten --- Decalogue

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Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish culture a visual dimension. Kalman Bland synthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intellectuals held a positive, liberal understanding of the Second Commandment and did, in fact, articulate a certain Jewish aesthetic. He draws on this insight to consider modern ideas of Jewish art, revealing how they are inextricably linked to diverse notions about modern Jewish identity that are themselves entwined with arguments over Zionism, integration, and anti-Semitism. Through its use of the past to illuminate the present and its analysis of how the present informs our readings of the past, this book establishes a new assessment of Jewish aesthetic theory rooted in historical analysis. Authoritative and original in its identification of authentic Jewish traditions of painting, sculpture, and architecture, this volume will ripple the waters of several disciplines, including Jewish studies, art history, medieval and modern history, and philosophy.

Jewish aesthetics. --- Jewish art. --- Jews -- Intellectual life. --- Judaism and art -- History of doctrines. --- Ten commandments -- Images. --- Judaism and art --- Jewish art --- Jewish aesthetics --- Jews --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Judaism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Aesthetics, Jewish --- Art, Jewish --- Hebrew art --- Art --- Art and Judaism --- History of doctrines --- Intellectual life --- Intellectual life. --- History of doctrines.