The menorah : from the Bible to modern Israel /
The menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum, has traversed millennia as a living symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people. Naturally, it did not pass through the ages unaltered. The Menorah explores the cultural and intellectual history of the Western world's oldest continuously used religious s...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Standing before the Arch of Titus menorah
- From Titus to Moses-and back
- Flavian Rome to the nineteenth century
- Modernism, Zionism, and the menorah
- Creating a national symbol
- A Jewish holy grail
- The menorah at the Vatican
- Illuminating the path to Armageddon
- Conclusion: New light.