The Curious Case of Noah’s … Box?
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Footnotes
1. Jodi Magness et al., “Inside the Huqoq Synagogue,” BAR, May/June 2019; Karen Britt and Ra‘anan Boustan, “Artistic Influences in Synagogue Mosaics: Putting the Huqoq Synagogue in Context,” BAR, May/June 2019.
2. See David Falk’s article about the Ark of the Covenant’s imagery on Bible History Daily (www.biblicalarchaeology.org/ark).
3. I thank biblical scholar William Schniedewind for bringing to my attention the similarity in shape and manner in which Noah’s ark appears in some of these representations to items depicted in ancient synagogues, and particularly the table, with four legs, found in a structure identified by its excavators as a synagogue, at Magdala. See Marcela Zapata-Meza and Rosaura Sanz-Rincón, “Excavating Mary Magdalene’s Hometown,” BAR, May/June 2017.
Endnotes
1. See Shelley Wachsmann, “On the Interpretation of Watercraft in Ancient Art,” Arts 8.165 (2019), pp. 1–67. (doi:10.3390/arts8040165). Accessible free online at www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/4/165.
2.
Jeffrey Spier, “The Earliest Christian Art: From Personal Salvation to Imperial Power,” in Jeffrey Spier, ed., Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2007), p. 1.
3.
While not obvious in the image in this article, better preserved coins from this series show the bird with a raven’s beak. See Spier, Picturing the Bible, p. 171, fig. 1: B.