In Israel Gab Es Bilder. Nachrichtenvon Darstellender Kunst in Alten Testament

Schroer, Silvia. In Israel Gab Es Bilder. Nachrichtenvon Darstellender Kunst in Alten Testament. Gottingen: Universitatsverlagen Freiburg Schweiz Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987. First edition. 8vo. xiv,553,(5)pp. Indices. Text in German. Gray dust jacket printed in black. Olive cloth, spine stamped in black. Illustrated with a frontispiece drawing and 37 plates at rear with 146 images. A fine, as new copy.

Following the text is a 5-page listing of books in the series, “Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis,” of which this work is Volume #74.

“Archaeologists excavating Iron Age Israelite sites are confronted by the problem of having to interpret carvings or drawings on artifacts such as those on Samarian ivories and pithoi from Ajrud, and three-dimensional artifacts. The problem is… determining the cultural matrix within which the images are to be interpreted.” A scholarly review. Fine. Hardcover. (49641) $90