The Image of Jacob on the Throne of God and the Construction of Liturgical Space in Late Antiquity

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2015
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Sivertsev, Alexei M.
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The motif of Jacob’s face engraved on the Throne of Glory has been an object of continued scholarly attention for the past several decades and has been studied in a variety of literary contexts, from Second Temple and early Christian to medieval. More recently, two excellent contributions by Rachel Neis and Ra’anan Boustan have done a lot to situate this motif specifically within its eastern Roman context by mapping out the motif’s place within the broader Byzantine discourse on images and relics. In this article, I expand on Neis’s and Boustan’s work by analyzing the place of Jacob’s image within the semiotics of late Roman and early Byzantine liturgical performance.
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Late Antiquity, Jacob, image, Throne of God, Liturgical Space, construction, Throne of Glory, semiotics, history, Liturgy, Roman performance, Byzantine performance, article
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Sivertsev A. M. The Image of Jacob on the Throne of God and the Construction of Liturgical Space in Late Antiquity / Alexei M. Sivertsev // Judaica Ukrainica : Annual Journal of Jewish Studies. - 2015. - Vol. 4. - P. 18-35.
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