FAH267H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: House Church, Pediment, Cella
14 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
From the radical fringe to the mainstream: early christian art and the emperor constantine. Lineage, genealogy -> connect events, sense of continuity. Authority from genealogy and word of god himself, dictating things he wants david and solomon to do. Therefore, close relationship and connections with god. Appearance of god in a cloud, meeting takes place between god and community of. Lots of named witnesses to this event. Gruesome violence at the house built for god. Romans rebuilt the city of jerusalem without the temple. Imprint roman version of what a city should look like on top of the ruins. Temple of jupiter replaces temple of jerusalem. Imposition of grid plan over previous street plan of jerusalem. City and temple in book of kings not the same one as described by josephus. Temple -> constructed during the life of christ, augustus, etc. , commissioned by king. Added second story and doubled surface area of holy sanctuary.
