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PREFACE
The nineteen essays assembled in this Festschrift represent what we consider the multi-array of interests evident in Professor Elisabeth (Elisheva) Revel-Neher’s work of nearly four decades. They include contributions by internationally renowned scholars who have come to know and appreciate her work, including Walter Cahn, Evelyn Cohen, Eva Frojmovic, Colum Hourihane, Herbert Kessler, and the late Kurt Schubert, and Israeli art historians and archaeologists with whom she worked for many years and established close collegial relationships, among them Andreina Contessa, Sarit Shalev Eyni, Rina Talgam, and Zeev Weiss.
During the last twenty years Elisheva Revel-Neher has been an advisor to many research students, some of whom have already established themselves as scholars in their own right and others who are just beginning promising careers: Rivka Ben-Sasson, Lihi Habas, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Emma Maayan-Fanar, Shulamit Laderman, Margo Stroumsa-Uzan, and the two editors of this collection. And last, but not least, there is a contribution by one of her own Ph.D. supervisors, Bezalel Narkiss.
Although many more scholars and colleagues expressed a wish to contribute to this Festschrift, we decided to limit the scope to Elisheva Revel-Neher’s own research interests and teaching areas: Jewish visual culture of late antiquity and the Middle Ages; early Christian and Byzantine art; and the cultural interactions between Jews and Christians in the realm of art. For the sake of cohesiveness the material in the book is concerned with only the late antique and medieval periods. Th e studies presented to our colleague, teacher, mentor, and friend in this volume cover a variety of subjects dealing with pictorial messages encrypted in various artistic media. Th us they represent an approach that is characteristic of Elisheva Revel-Neher’s long-term, diverse work and the dialogue she conducted with her colleagues and students.
They range from late antique synagogues, Jewish funerary art, and early Christian and Byzantine mosaics to Byzantine manuscript illumination, Jewish book art, and the representation of the Old Testament in Western manuscripts. Th ey address a broad array of topics: Jewish identity in the late antique period, as in the studies of Kurt Schubert and Rivka Ben-Sasson; patronage in late antique Jewish and Christian religious architecture, as demonstrated by Lihi Habas; Jewish-Christian polemics and the representation of the “Other,” as exemplifi ed in the chapters by Colum Hourihane and Emma Maayan-Fanar; the question of Jewish or Christian illuminators of Hebrew books represented in the articles by Evelyn Cohen and Eva Frojmovic; the cultural background of illustrations in Hebrew manuscripts in Katrin Kogman-Appel’s essay; Christian cosmology and dogma shown in the studies of Herbert L. Kessler, Shulamit Laderman, and Rina Talgam; the imagery of the Temple in the chapters by Walter Cahn and Andreina Contessa; the question of the Jewish and Christian perception of women in the studies by Mati Meyer and Sarit Shalev-Eyni.
Th e included contributions all refl ect something of Elisheva’s enthusiasm for and fascination with the multi-layered fabric of late antique and medieval religious life and its multiple links to the visual cultures of Europe and Byzantium. Th ey also represent a range of methodological approaches and attempts to come to grips with the cultural variety of medieval religious art, and they refl ect years of research, teaching, and a fruitful dialogue with colleagues in Europe and the United States, as well in Israel. Lastly, we would like to extend our gratitude to the contributors to this book, fi rst for their enlightening and creative essays and for their enthusiastic response to this project and their support. Th e editors of the book would also like to thank one another for constructive ideas and criticism, patience and tolerance, and the pleasure of a fruitful collaboration.
Beer Sheva and Raʾanana December 2007
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