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Between the sixth and eighth centuries CE, the image emerged as a rhetorical category in religious literature produced in the Mediterranean basin. The development was not a uniquely Christian phenomenon. Rather, it emerged in the context of broader debates about symbolic forms that took place across a wide range of ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups who inhabited the late Roman and early Byzantine world. In this book, Alexei Sivertsev demonstrates how Jewish texts serve as an important, and until recently overlooked, witness to the formation of image discourse and associated practices of image veneration in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Addressing the role of the image as a rhetorical device in Jewish liturgical poetry, Sivertsev also considers the theme of the engraved image of Jacob in its early Byzantine context and the aesthetics of spaces that bridge the gap between the material and the immaterial in early Byzantine imagination.

Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Central Institutions of the Jewish self-government in Roman Palestine in the Modern Historiography: Theories and Problems -- Local Institutions of the Jewish self-government in Roman Palestine in Modern Historiography -- Rabbinic Literature as a Historical Source: Some Methodological Considerations -- Part I: Jewish Patriarchs: Civic Magnates or Political Leaders? -- Chapter 1: Political and Civic Leadership in the Roman Near East and the Formation of the Second-Third Century Jewish Aristocracy -- Philological Ambiguity of Official Titles used in the Roman Near East and its Connection with Contemporary Social Processes -- Political and Municipal Jewish Leaders: A Terminological Ambiguity -- Chapter 2: Titles "Nasi" and "Patriarch" as possible designation for Jewish civic officials -- Title "Nasi" as possible designation for local civic officials -- Title "Patriarch" as possible designation for local civic officials -- Chapter 3: Gamalilean "Nesi'im": National Leaders or Local Magnates? -- Royal Claims of the Local Municipal Magnates in the Roman Near East -- Family History of the Gamalilean Nesi'im: From Second Commonwealth Aristocracy to Davidic Descendants -- Gamalilean Nesi'im: National Leaders or Local Magnates? -- Part II: Jewish Aristocratic Households and Their Public Functions in Third-Early Fifth Century Palestine -- Chapter 4: Clan-based public institutions during the Late Second Temple Period -- Private courts in the Gospels -- Local aristocratic clans and their public functions (the case of Galilee) -- Chapter 5: Aristocratic Households and their Public Functions during the Rabbinic Period -- "Those of the house of R. X" as Halakhic Authorities in Rabbinic texts -- Chapter 6: Private Courts and Judicial System in Rabbinic Palestine.