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Article: Jewish Historiography and Iconography in Early and Medieval Christianity.
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- Theological Studies
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- December 1, 1993
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By Heinz Schreckenberg and Kurt Schubert, with an Introduction by David Flusser. Translated from the German by Paul A. Cathey. Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature. Assen: Van Gorcum; and Minneapolis: Fortress,' 1992. Pp. xviii + 307. $30.
This study is composed of two discrete monographs in the same binding. Schreckenberg analyzes the transmission, reception, and influence of the historian Josephus on Christian scholars and artists from the first to the late-15th century. Schubert studies both Jewish and Christian iconography, including the programmatic paintings of the Dura Europos Synagogue, the Via Latina Catacomb, and two manuscripts, the Vienna ...