Material Encounters between Jews and Christians

Bar Kribus is an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University specializing in Late Antique to Early Modern Ethiopia and the archaeology, history, and historical geography of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews). He is 2025 winner of the prestigious Dan David Prize. Zaroui Pogossian is associate professor of Byzantine Civilization at Florence University, focusing on medieval Armenia in the context of wider Eurasian processes. She is the principal investigator of the ERC project Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia, 9th-14th Centuries.Alexandra Cuffel is professor of Jewish Religion at the Ruhr University Bochum. Her research focuses on medieval Jewish–Christian–Muslim relations in Europe and the Middle East.

• List of IllustrationsChapter 1. "Material Encounters between Jews and Christians in the East: An Introduction," by Alexandra Cuffel, Zaroui Pogossian, and Bar KribusPart I: ArmeniaChapter 2. "Light Archaeology at Yeghegis Jewish Cemetery: Analysis and Interpretation," by Michele NucciottiChapter 3. "The Jewish Tombstones at Yeghegis, Armenia and Their Sculptural Decoration," by Edda VardanyanChapter 4. "New Iconographies of the Passion of Christ: the Jews in Two Armenian Miniatures of Vaspurakan," by Rachele ZanonePart II: The Holy LandChapter 5. "Integrating Jew and Gentile through Visual Culture at Bethlehem’s Nativity Church and in Jerusalem: Art, Messianic Covenant and Eschatology in the Latin Kingdom," by Lucy-Anne HuntPart III: South ArabiaChapter 6. "Jews and their Relations with Christians in Pre-Islamic South Arabia (Fourth–Sixth Century)," by Iwona GajdaPart IV: EthiopiaChapter 7. "Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish)—Ethiopian Orthodox Interaction in the Səmen Mountains of Northern Ethiopia: A View from the Betä Ǝsraʾel Monastic Center of Səmen Mənaṭa," by Sophia Dege-Müller and Bar KribusChapter 8. "A Palace for the Hairy King—An Ethiopian Political and Religious Riddle," by Manuel João RamosChapter 9. "Anti-Jewish Images in Ethiopian Christian Art from the Seventeenth Century Onwards: An Attempt at Interpretation," by Dorothea McEwanPart V: IndiaChapter 10. "Entangled Identities: Approaching Sacred Spaces of Premodern Kerala, South India," by Percy Arfeen-WegnerChapter 11. "The Lost Jew Town of Kochi," by Ophira Gamliel (Jammal), Meydad Eliyahu (Kallingal), Yehoshua Eliyahu (Palliparambil)Index