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Ancient Jewish art and archaeology: What do we know and where do we go from here? - LEE I. LEVINE, VISUAL JUDAISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY. HISTORICAL CONTEXTS OF JEWISH ART (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 2012 [2013]). Pp. x + 582, figs. 128. ISBN 978-0-300-10089-1. $75.
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1 It must be noted here that Levine does not elaborate systematically on how this process of trickling down worked out in practice or what the aristocracy did to bring it about.
2 Perhaps most prominently by Schwartz, S. Imperialism and Jewish society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. (Princeton, NJ 2001)Google Scholar, to whose ideas on this Levine, incidentally, does not subscribe (210 n.16).
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