Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art

Shulamit Laderman, Ph.D. (2000) in Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Lecturer in Jewish and General Art at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies . She has published extensively on Jewish and Christian mutual influences on visual illustration of the Bible.

• 1.Jewish and Christian Reciprocal Influences2.The Blueprint of Creation in the Bible and Its Allegorical Interpretations 3.Creation in Christian Works4.Creation as Interpreted in Jewish Art5.Visualizing Creation in a Fourteenth-Century Jewish Manuscript 6.The Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant7.The Temple: History and Ideology 8.The Synagogue as a Minor Temple 9.Schematic Models: Forms of Visual Interpretation10.Imaging of the Tabernacle 11.The Art of Memory: The Sanctuary Its Sacrifices, and Its Cosmic Import12.Christian Supersession of Jewish Ideas