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This collection of papers arrives from the eighth annual symposium between the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies of Tel Aviv University and the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Ruhr, Bochum held in Bochum, June 2007. The general theme of the Decalogue was examined in its various uses by both Jewish and Christian traditions throughout the centuries to the present.Three papers deal with the origin of the Decalogue: Yair Hoffman on the rare mentioning of the Decalogue in the Hebrew Bible outside the Torah; E. L. Greenstein considers that already A. ibn Ezra doubted that

Ten commandments

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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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Ten commandments --- Bible. --- Commandments, Ten --- Decalogue --- Covetousness --- 296*332 --- 296*332 Philo van Alexandrië:--studies --- Philo van Alexandrië:--studies

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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. --- Ten commandments --- Images.

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Lavish musical soundtracks contributed a special grandeur to the new widescreen, stereophonic sound movie experience of postwar biblical epics such as Samson and Delilah, Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis. In Epic Sound, Stephen C. Meyer shows how music was utilized for various effects, sometimes serving as a vehicle for narrative plot and at times complicating biblical and cinematic interpretation. In this way, the soundscapes of these films reflected the ideological and aesthetic tensions within the genre, and more generally, within postwar American society. By examining key biblical films, Meyer adept

Film composers. --- Bible films --- Motion picture music --- Cinema composers --- Film score composers --- Film scorers --- Motion picture composers --- Movie composers --- Scorers, Film --- Composers --- Biblical films --- Religious films --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Film composers --- Samson and Delilah (Motion picture) --- David and Bathsheba (Motion picture) --- Quo Vadis (Motion picture) --- The Robe (Motion picture) --- The Ten Commandments (Motion picture) --- Ben-Hur (Motion picture) --- King of Kings (Motion picture) --- Barabbas (Motion picture) --- The Greatest Story Ever Told (Motion picture)