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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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Immortality (Philosophy). --- Immortalité (Philosophie). --- Islamic philosophy --- Islamic philosophy. --- Jewish philosophy --- Jewish philosophy. --- Philosophie islamique --- Philosophie juive --- Philosophy, Arab --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Ouvrages avant 1800. --- Averroès, --- Averroës, --- Zechariah ben Solomon-Rofe, --- Criticism, Textual.

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Jewish philosophy --- Jews --- Mysticism --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Identity --- Judaism --- History --- Philosophy --- Altmann, Alexander, --- Herzl, Theodor, --- Herzl, Binyamin Zeʼev, --- Hertsl, Binyamin Zeʼev, --- Hartzil, Thiyūdūr, --- Gert︠s︡lʹ, Benʹi︠a︡min Zeėv, --- Герцль, Беньямин Зеэв, --- Gert︠s︡lʹ, Teodor, --- Герцль, Теодор, --- Herzl, Teodoro, --- Herzl, Théodore, --- Hertsl, Ṭeodor, --- Hertsel, Binyamin Zeʼev, --- Hertsel, Teʼodor, --- הירצל, טיאודור --- הירצל, תיאודור --- הערצל --- הערצל, בנימין בן יעקב, --- הערצל, בנימין טהעאדאר --- הערצל, טה --- הערצל, טהעאדאר --- הערצל, טהעאדאר, --- הערצל, טעאדאר --- הערצל, טעאדאר, --- הערצל, ט. --- הערצל, ת., --- הערצעל, ט. --- הרצל --- הרצל, בנימין זאב --- הרצל, בנימין זאב, --- הרצל, טיאודור --- הרצל, ט., --- הרצל, תאודור --- הרצל, תאודור, --- הרצל, תיאודור --- הרצל, תיאודור, --- הרצל, תיאודר, --- הרצל, ת., --- טעאדאר הערצעל --- هرتزل، ثيودر، --- Jewish religion --- World history --- History of civilization

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Religious studies --- Sociology of religion