Publisher's Synopsis
How does iconography depict prophetic actions? How do references to images support prophetic messages? The authors of the essays in this collection look at the interrelationships between text and image. They examine textual and iconographic remains from Israel and Judah, Egypt, Greece and Persia, often with direct relationship with Israelite and Judean religion and prophetic activity.With essays by Izak Cornelius, Helen Dixon, Rolf Jacobson, Yaakov Kupitz, Katell Berthelot, Christl Maier, Nanno Marinatos, Margaret Odell, Thomas Staubli und Brent Strawn.
