The Iron Age Pithoi Drawings From Horvat Teman or Kuntillet 'Ajrud
Some New Proposals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12837979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian B Schmidt (Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91-125 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2116 • E-ISSN: 1569-2124 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156921202762733905 |
| OpenAlex | W2071226650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Did the Israelites and Judahites of the Iron age visually represent their gods? In this article, established arguments are supplemented and some new ones advanced in support of a single, ancient composer's representation of the deities Yahweh and Asherah by means of the deliberate association of text and image on the two pithoi scenes from Iron age Kuntillet 'Ajrud. Not only were the ancient artist and scribe one and the same, but this individual employed a number of well known artistic techniques to convey both depth of field and perspective in such a way as to create a unified field of meaning for each of the two ritual scenes as well as for both scenes in their complementary function as two halves of a larger semiotic whole
Art · Biblical studies · Biology · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Field (mathematics · Function (biology · Israelites · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Perspective (graphical · Pure mathematics · Representation (politics · Semiotics · Visual arts · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |