Philo of Alexandria, Circumcision, and the Construction of the Ethnic “Other” in Greek and Roman Art
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20 septembre 2020
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By Thomas R. Blanton IV, Associated Researcher, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, University of Erfurt. Probably because of an academic division of labor between scholars in biblical studies, classics, and art history, discussions of the Judaic rite of circumcision as practiced during the Hellenistic and Roman periods have made only limited use of Greek and Roman frescoes, mosaics, and statuary. That is a pity, because the artistic material transmits a series of cult...