Abraham Upfront Frontality In The Dura Europos Narratives
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Abraham Upfront: Abraham Upfront: Frontality in the Dura Frontality in the Dura Europos Narrative Europos Narrative By Paige Dansinger By Paige Dansinger
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The narrative murals of Dura Europos, Syria (3rd Century) reveal the oldest Jewish figurative pictorial narratives. A closer study of the depiction of Abraham, poses some questions about the stylistic departure away from frontality.
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Abraham Upfront: Frontality in the Abraham Upfront: Frontality in the Dura Europos NarrativeDura Europos Narrative
By Paige DansingerBy Paige Dansinger
Palmyra Gate, Dura Europos
Map of Palestine, Madaba, 6th-century
Dura Europos
Dura Europos Blessing, The Dura Europos
Liturgical Parchment.
Western Wall, “Wall Street”, Dura Europos
Reconstructed interior of the house church at Yale, and Temple of Bel at Dura Europos.
Temple of Mithras at Dura and Healing of the Paralytic mural in the house church
Sacrificing to the Palmyrene Gods, Dura Europos
The Seleucid Empire: Seleucus Coin and Coin of Bagadates I, 290-280 BCE
"Always lying in wait for the neighboring nations, strong in arms and persuasive in council, he [Seleucus]
acquired Mesopotamia, Armenia, 'Seleucid' Cappadocia, Persis, Parthia, Bactria, Arabia, Tapouria,
Sogdia, Arachosia, Hyrcania, and other adjacent peoples that had been subdued by Alexander, as far as
the river Indus, so that the boundaries of his empire were the most extensive in Asia after that of Alexander.
The whole region from Phrygia to the Indus was subject to Seleucus."
— Appian, The Syrian Wars
Ancient Synagogues in the DiasporaSardis, Delos, Tiberius, Aegina, Ostia, Capernaum,
Western Wall, Dura Europos Synagogue
Dura Europos Synagogue Reconstruction
The Torah Shrine, Dura Europos
The Binding of Isaac, Bet Alpha Synagogue Mosaic
The Zodiac Panel, Beth Alpha Synagogue Mosaic, 6th-century
Infancy of Moses, Dura EuroposThe Exodus (detail), Dura Europos
Daniel and the Lions, Sfax near Carthage, 6th C. King David Playing the Lyre, Synagogue at Gaza, 6th
C
Oldest Written Song. Dedicated to the Moon-Goddess, Syria 3400 Years Old, Cuneiform
The Purim Procession, Dura Europos
The Closed Temple, Dura EuropaThe Temple of Aaron, Dura Europos
Roman Gold Glass, 4th-century
“ I should like to show Posidonius some glassblower who, by his breath, molds the glass into many shapes which scarcely could be created by the most skillful hand.”
(Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilium XC.31)
The Sacrifice of Isaac, Dura Europos
Mosaic with Good-luck Symbols. Antioch, 5th-century
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