Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Review of Noga-Banai, Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome (Ian Kinman).
Galit Noga-Banai. Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome. Oxford University Press, 2018.

... Noga-Banai structures her study around repeated journeys between Jerusalem and Rome from the first through fifth centuries, tracing a period from subtle to increasingly assured visual appropriation of memories and tropes, culminating in a self-assured and assertive Rome confident in its identity as the perceived historical center of the Christian movement. ...

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