The Menorah and the Seven-branched Candelabrum
Beschreibung
For both Judaism and Christianity, the Menorah is an iconic artefact. It played a crucial role as an implement of the Tabernacle in the desert and the Temple in Jerusalem. After the destruction of the Temple and the eventual loss of the Menorah, it became the quintessential symbol of the Jewish people. It also figures prominently in Christian thought and imagery. Especially Christian monumental seven-branched candelabra raise questions about their spatial aesthetics as well as their liturgical and performative functions.
This volume offers interdisciplinary reflections on the Menorah in both Jewish and Christian traditions, and thus contributes not only to a better understanding of their cultural entanglement in pre-modern times, but also to a more differentiated view of their specific and contextualaesthetic qualities.
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Andrea Worm and Maria Streicher , Department of Art History, Tübingen University, Germany.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- Andrea Worm and Maria Streicher: Introduction
- I. Tabernacle and Temple
- Matthias Morgenstern: Das Schicksal des siebenarmigen Leuchters aus dem Jerusalemer Tempel im mittelalterlichen Rom. Geheimnisse, Verbote, Spekulationen
- Lutz Doering: Priest, Temple, Jewishness, Redemption? Reflections on the Significations of the Menorah in Ancient Judaism
- Mary Carruthers: Articulating the geometricalia of Scripture. Bezalel, Aaron, and Moses
- Gerd Blum and Katrin Kogman-Appel: Vasari and Giambullari on the Menorah, the Tabernacle, and Bezalel. Discourses on the Legitimisation of Art in Early Modern Italy and their Jewish Sources
- Eva-Bettina Krems: Die Menora in Raffaels Vertreibung des Heliodor und Garofalos Vertreibung der Wechsler aus dem Tempel. Zu den Darstellungsmodi und der Bedeutung des jüdischen Kultgeräts
- II. Image and Exegesis
- Eleanor Goerss and Andrea Worm: tres gradus fidelium in ecclesia. The Seven-branched Candelabrum as an Allegory of Social Order in Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae
- Lesley Smith: Jewish and Christian Re-Imagining of the Seven-branched Lampstand in the Postilla litteralis of Nicholas of Lyra (d. 1349)
- Margit Krenn: Der siebenarmige Leuchter im Speculum humanae salvationis
- Emma Abate: The Sanctuary's Implements. Their Iconography and Tradition in Manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible (13th-15th Century)
- J. H. Chajes: "A Secret Particularly Obscure". The Menorah and the Sacred Space of Classical Ilanot (Kabbalistic Trees)
- III. Patronage and Memoria
- Vera Henkelmann: Aniane and Fulda. Seven-branched Candelabra from the Carolingian Period and their Context
- Tobias J. Bidlingmaier and Andrea Worm: Seven-branched Candelabra in Medieval England. Gathering Evidence
- Jochen Hermann Vennebusch: Marienwohlde oder Mölln? Überlegungen zur Provenienz des siebenarmigen Leuchters (1436) in der Möllner St. Nicolai-Kirche
- Claudia Echinger-Maurach: Siebenarmige Leuchter im 16. Jahrhundert. Zu einem kaum bekannten Entwurf Michelangelos und einer Vertreibung der Wechsler aus dem Tempel von Marcello Venusti
- IV. Context and (Re-)Use
- Judith UtzJudith Utz: Der siebenarmige Leuchter im Heiligtum von Mentorella (Vulturella) in Latium
- Maria Streicher: "Madonna del Albero, dandole tal cognome quella gran pianta". Zur Rekontextualisierung des Trivulzio-Kandelabers im 16. Jahrhundert
- Andrea Worm: Der siebenarmige Leuchter in der Marienkirche in Frankfurt an der Oder. Performative und politische Kontexte
- Jens Niebaum: "den store liusestaken af bronz med dess Siu lampor". Siebenarmiger Leuchter und schwedisches Königtum bei Nicodemus Tessin d. J., 1708
- Ilia Rodov: Survivals and Revivals of the Menorah in Medieval and Early Modern European Synagogues
- Figures and Charts
- Index
