Writing on the wall: graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity
Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and T...
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Zusammenfassung: | Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions displayed on tombs and synagogues equally reflect the sensibilities of their influential patrons. The perspectives and sentiments of nonelite Jews, by contrast, have mostly disappeared from the historical record. Focusing on these forgotten Jews of antiquity, Writing on the Wall takes an unprecedented look at the vernacular inscriptions and drawings they left behind and sheds new light on the richness of their "idian lives.Just like their neighbors throughout the eastern and southern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Egypt, ancient Jews scribbled and drew graffiti everyplace--in and around markets, hippodromes, theaters, pagan temples, open cliffs, sanctuaries, and even inside burial caves and synagogues. Karen Stern reveals what these markings tell us about the men and women who made them, people whose lives, beliefs, and behaviors eluded commemoration in grand literary and architectural works. Making compelling analogies with modern graffiti practices, she documents the overlooked connections between Jews and their neighbors, showing how popular Jewish practices of prayer, mortuary commemoration, commerce, and civic engagement regularly crossed ethnic and religious boundaries.Illustrated throughout with examples of ancient graffiti, Writing on the Wall provides a tantalizingly intimate glimpse into the cultural worlds of forgotten populations living at the crossroads of Judaism, Christianity, paganism, and earliest Islam |
Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 283 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne |
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KAREN B. STERN: WRITING ON THE WALL
KAREN STERN S NEW BOOK IS PART OF A COMMENDABLE TREND TO MINE NEGLECTED
SOURCES FOR JEWISH HISTORY, ATTEMPTING TO
GAIN NEW INSIGHTS INTO OLD QUESTIONS. HER FOCUS IS ON A CATEGORY OF DATA
THAT IS PERVASIVE, THOUGH NOT ALWAYS ACCORDED
SUFFICIENT ATTENTION: GRAFFITI - BOTH TEXTUAL AND PICTORIAL - PRODUCED
BY JEWS OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEM, FROM THE SIXTH
CENTURY BCE UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF ISLAM. THE TOPIC IS HIGHLY INTERESTING,
AND SEVERAL STUDIES OF GRAFFITI IN NON-JEWISH
CONTEXTS APPEARED IN RECENT YEARS, BY REBECCA BENEFIEL, ANGELOS
CHANIOTIS, AND PETER KEEGAN AMONG OTHERS.
THE BOOK CONSISTS OF AN INTRODUCTION AND FOUR CHAPTERS, DIVIDED
THEMATICALLY. STERN BEGINS WITH THE COMPLEX TASK OF
DEFINING GRAFFITI, A TERM IN ITSELF MULTI-FACETED AND PERHAPS EVEN
ANACHRONISTIC AS A CONCEPT (3). DISTINCTIONS SUCH AS
THOSE BETWEEN OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL INSCRIPTIONS, OR HIGH AND POOR
SCRIBAL QUALITY, ARE OFTEN HARD TO DISCERN IN THE
STUDY MATERIAL. HENCE, STERN PROVIDES A GOOD WORKING DEFINITION OF HER
OWN, WHICH SHE DERIVES DIRECTLY FROM THE DATA:
GRAFFITI ARE THOSE MARKINGS (WHETHER WORDS, IMAGES, OR BOTH) APPLIED IN
AN UNOFFICIAL CAPACITY AND IN SOCIAL AND
DIALOGICAL WAYS (20). THESE THREE CHARACTERISTICS ARE IMPORTANT AND
INFORM THE ANALYSES PRESENTED THROUGHOUT THE
BOOK.
THE FIRST CHAPTER, CARVING GRAFFITI AS DEVOTION , DISCUSSES DATA FROM
RELIGIOUS LOCATIONS RANGING FROM THE DURA-EUROPOS
SYNAGOGUE, POLYTHEISTIC DESERT SANCTUARIES, AND THE MULTI-FAITH CAVE OF
ELIJAH ON MOUNT CARMEL. STERN RAISES GOOD
QUESTIONS ABOUT ANCIENT DEVOTIONAL ACTIVITIES (E.G., 38), SUGGESTING
THAT GRAFFITI IN THESE LOCATIONS SHOULD BE SEEN AS A
MODE OF PRAYER. CHAPTER 2, TITLED MORTUARY GRAFFITI IN THE ROMAN EAST ,
ACTUALLY ONLY DISCUSSES PALESTINE, FOCUSING ON
THE BEIT SHEARIM NECROPOLIS. THE AUTHOR ATTEMPTS TO FIND PATTERNS WITHIN
THESE GRAFFITI, AND CONSIDERS SOME OF THE
MOTIVATIONS AND BELIEFS OF THEIR PRODUCERS. THE THIRD CHAPTER MOVES TO
MILETOS, APHRODISIAS, AND TYRE, AND EXPLORES
HOW SOME JEWS COULD BE MAKING ONE S MARK IN A PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN
WORLD . CHAPTER 4, RETHINKING MODERN GRAFFITI
THROUGH ANCIENT , CONSISTS OF SEVEN PAGES AND COULD BETTER BE TITLED
SUMMARY , AS IT MAINLY REITERATES THE POINTS
DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY.
IT IS EVIDENT THAT A GREAT AMOUNT OF RESEARCH HAS BEEN INVESTED IN THE
BOOK, YET THE RESULT IS NOT ALWAYS SATISFACTORY.
TO BEGIN WITH, THE AUTHOR S CHOICE OF METHODOLOGY IS UNCLEAR. IT WOULD
SEEM THAT CHAPTERS ARE ARRANGED BY GRAFFITI
TYPE, YET IT SOON BECOMES CLEAR THAT THE FRAMEWORK RELIES ON
CONVENIENTLY AVAILABLE RECORDS. WHILE THIS IS NOT A
PROBLEM IN ITSELF, IT UNDERMINES STERN S ATTEMPTS TO FIND PATTERNS IN
THE DATA. FOR EXAMPLE, A COMPARISON BETWEEN
JEWISH MORTUARY GRAFFITI FROM PALESTINE WITH CONTEMPORANEOUS ONES FROM
ITALY, BOTH JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH, WOULD
HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY INTERESTING, YET IT IS LACKING. STERN MENTIONS THE
UNAVAILABILITY OF DATA FROM VILLA TORLONIA (175),
BUT THERE ARE OTHER CATACOMBS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED. SIMILARLY,
A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE GRAFFITI FROM
PUBLIC SPACES IN ASIA MINOR, DISCUSSED IN CHAPTER 3, AND DATA FROM
PALESTINE WOULD HAVE RAISED INTERESTING QUESTIONS,
BUT THE AUTHOR CHOSE NOT TO PURSUE IT. A MORE SYSTEMATIC DISPLAY OF THE
EVIDENCE WOULD HAVE IMPROVED THE BOOK, BY
ALLOWING THE READER TO OBSERVE EXISTING PATTERNS (OR, CONVERSELY, WOULD
HAVE EMPHASIZED THE HAPHAZARD NATURE OF
GRAFFITI).
ADDITIONALLY, THE TARGETED READERSHIP OF THE BOOK IS NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR.
ON THE ONE HAND, THE VOLUME IS TOO SPECIALIZED
FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE, YET IT CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT MOST RELEVANT
SCHOLARS WILL FIND SUPERFLUOUS, E.G. (86),
OSSUARIES ARE BONE BOXES , AND ARCOSOLIA IS THE PLURAL OF ARCOSOLIUM.
GRAFFITI ARE USUALLY TRANSLITERATED, BUT AT TIMES
MERELY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH (E.G., 73). THIS IS NOT ONLY INCONSISTENT
BUT ALSO A STRANGE CHOICE IN A BOOK DEALING WITH
SUCH SHORT TEXTS, IN WHICH EVERY LETTER IS SIGNIFICANT.
THE BOOK S BIGGEST SHORTCOMING, HOWEVER, IS THAT THE AUTHOR TENDS TO
REACH BROAD CONCLUSIONS FROM A NARROW FACTUAL
BASE. THIS MIGHT BE CAUSED BY THE TANTALIZINGLY LIMITED AMOUNT OF
INFORMATION THAT GRAFFITI ACTUALLY YIELD, RESULTING IN
ATTEMPTS TO EXTRACT MORE THAN ACTUALLY IS THERE. FOR EXAMPLE, SHE
ASSUMES THAT CARVING GRAFFITI WOULD BE PAINFUL:
POWDERS AND FRAGMENTS WOULD COVER ONE S FACE AND FILL ONE S LUNGS WITH
DUST [...] AND CARVING IMPLEMENTS [...] SURELY
DREW BLOOD WHEN THE LIGHTING FADED OR SURFACES GREW UNWIELDY (79).
REGARDLESS OF THE LIKELIHOOD OF THIS SCENARIO IN
THE CONTEXT OF SUCH BRIEF CARVINGS, HER SUGGESTION THAT INSCRIBERS
MIGHT HAVE INDEED VIEWED THESE TYPES OF
LABORIOUSNESS AND ENSUING DEGREES OF PAIN AS INTRINSIC COMPONENTS OF
THEIR PRAYER EXPERIENCES SEEMS EXAGGERATED.
SIMILARLY, FROM THE THREE-WORD TYRIAN DIPINTO, MATRONAS KONCHULE
*
S TOPOS (PLACE OF MATRONA THE PURPLE-SELLER) AND ITS
ASSOCIATED MENORAH, SHE CONCLUDES THAT RELATIONS BETWEEN SOME LOCAL
JEWISH, SAMARITAN, AND CHRISTIAN POPULATIONS IN
THE FIFTH AND SIXTHS CENTURIES WERE SUFFICIENTLY FUNCTIONAL THAT THE
PLACEMENT OF A LARGE JEWISH SYMBOL WOULD NOT
CREATE A COMMERCIAL LIABILITY FOR AN ASSOCIATED VENDOR , AND STATES THAT
THE DIPINTO ADVANCES PREVIOUS CONSIDERATIONS
OF THE ROLES OF JEWISH WOMEN IN CIVIC AND COMMERCIAL CONTEXTS IN TYRE
AND ELSEWHERE IN THE ROMAN EAST (165-6).
STERN EQUALLY TENDS TO ENRICH THE MEAGER GRAFFITI DATA WITH INFORMATION
THAT IT DOES NOT ACTUALLY CONTAIN. FOR EXAMPLE,
WHEN DISCUSSING GRAFFITI FROM THE PANEION IN EL-KANAIS, SHE CLAIMS THAT
THEODOTOS GRAFFITO [...] ALSO TRIUMPHANTLY
DETAILS SOME OF THE PERILS THE AUTHOR FACED EN ROUTE [...] (61). THE
TEXT, IN FACT, DOES NO SUCH THING, MERELY STATING
THAT THEODOTOS RETURNED SAFELY FROM OVERSEAS .
THE INSUFFICIENT SUBSTANCE IS FURTHER REFLECTED STYLISTICALLY. THE
AUTHOR TENDS TO ENUMERATE AND REPEAT WORDS AND
IDEAS, TO THE POINT THAT IT BECOMES TEDIOUS. SENTENCES LIKE JEWS,
ALONGSIDE GREEKS, EGYPTIANS, ROMANS, SYRIANS,
NABATEANS, AND MANY OTHERS, RAPIDLY FOUND THEMSELVES DISPERSED
THROUGHOUT THE EXPANSE OF A SHIFTING MEDITERRANEAN,
ARABIAN, AND MESOPOTAMIAN WORLD; THEIR EXPERIENCES ARE AS MUCH A PART OF
THAT WORLD AS ARE THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE
WELL-TRAINED AND BETTER-KNOWN AUTHORS AND EDITORS FROM CARTHAGE, ROME,
CONSTANTINOPLE, AND BABYLON, WHOSE LITERARY
TREATISES SHAPE COMMON UNDERSTANDINGS OF THESE PERIODS AND PLACES. (34)
ABOUND IN THE BOOK. REPETITIONS ARE FOUND
EVEN IN THE FOOTNOTES, WHICH SOMETIMES CONTAIN NEARLY IDENTICAL TEXT
(204, NOTES 120 AND 121). THESE PROFUSE
REITERATIONS LEAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THE BOOK COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH
SHORTER, ALTHOUGH ITS TEXT ONLY COVERS 175
PAGES.
DESPITE THESE FLAWS, THIS MONOGRAPH CONTAINS SEVERAL GOOD POINTS. STERN
IS CLEARLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HER RESEARCH
TOPIC, WHICH QUICKLY SWEEPS THE READER ALONG. THUS, SHE SPLENDIDLY
MANAGES TO DEMONSTRATE THE BEAUTY AND
IMPORTANCE OF THESE SEEMINGLY SIMPLE WRITINGS ON WALLS. FURTHERMORE, HER
CONTINUOUS ATTEMPTS AT RECONSTRUCTING THE
SENSORY EXPERIENCES, FEELINGS, AND ACTIONS OF GRAFFITI PRODUCERS (E.G.,
BY DESCRIBING HOW LIGHT FALLS INTO THE BEIT
SHEARIM CATACOMBS AT SPECIFIC TIMES OF THE DAY), COULD SERVE AS AN
EXAMPLE TO MANY ANCIENT HISTORIANS. IT WOULD BE
VERY VALUABLE IF STERN S EXTENSIVE RESEARCH (WHICH, AS MENTIONED ON PAGE
XVI, IS ALREADY ARRANGED IN DATABASES) COULD
BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, PERHAPS IN A FORM SIMILAR TO REBECCA
BENEFIEL S DIGITAL PROJECT ON POMPEII AND
HERCULANEUM (ANCIENTGRAFFITI.ORG), BUT FOCUSING ON JEWISH GRAFFITI. SUCH
AN INITIATIVE WOULD NOT MERELY ALLOW
ADDITIONAL SCHOLARS TO ENGAGE WITH STERN S DATA, BUT ALSO WOULD ENSURE
ITS PRESERVATION IN A DIGITAL FORMAT - AN
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION WHEN IT COMES TO EASILY-DESTRUCTIBLE
GRAFFITI.
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spelling | Stern, Karen B. Verfasser (DE-588)173997910 aut Writing on the wall graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity Karen B. Stern Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2018] © 2018 1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 283 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions displayed on tombs and synagogues equally reflect the sensibilities of their influential patrons. The perspectives and sentiments of nonelite Jews, by contrast, have mostly disappeared from the historical record. Focusing on these forgotten Jews of antiquity, Writing on the Wall takes an unprecedented look at the vernacular inscriptions and drawings they left behind and sheds new light on the richness of their "idian lives.Just like their neighbors throughout the eastern and southern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Egypt, ancient Jews scribbled and drew graffiti everyplace--in and around markets, hippodromes, theaters, pagan temples, open cliffs, sanctuaries, and even inside burial caves and synagogues. Karen Stern reveals what these markings tell us about the men and women who made them, people whose lives, beliefs, and behaviors eluded commemoration in grand literary and architectural works. Making compelling analogies with modern graffiti practices, she documents the overlooked connections between Jews and their neighbors, showing how popular Jewish practices of prayer, mortuary commemoration, commerce, and civic engagement regularly crossed ethnic and religious boundaries.Illustrated throughout with examples of ancient graffiti, Writing on the Wall provides a tantalizingly intimate glimpse into the cultural worlds of forgotten populations living at the crossroads of Judaism, Christianity, paganism, and earliest Islam Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Antike (DE-588)4068754-5 gnd rswk-swf Inschrift (DE-588)4027107-9 gnd rswk-swf Juden (DE-588)4028808-0 gnd rswk-swf Mittelmeerraum (DE-588)4074900-9 gnd rswk-swf Mittelmeerraum (DE-588)4074900-9 g Juden (DE-588)4028808-0 s Inschrift (DE-588)4027107-9 s Antike (DE-588)4068754-5 s Geschichte z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-0-691-16133-4 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400890453 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext SWB Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030547468&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Rezension |
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title | Writing on the wall graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity |
title_auth | Writing on the wall graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity |
title_exact_search | Writing on the wall graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity |
title_full | Writing on the wall graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity Karen B. Stern |
title_fullStr | Writing on the wall graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity Karen B. Stern |
title_full_unstemmed | Writing on the wall graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity Karen B. Stern |
title_short | Writing on the wall |
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title_sub | graffiti and the forgotten Jews of antiquity |
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topic_facet | Antike Inschrift Juden Mittelmeerraum |
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