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  1. The Good Shepherd
    image, meaning, and power
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781481315371
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    9781481315371
    RVK Categories: NK 4950 ; LH 82880 ; BO 9670
    Subjects: Shepherds in the Bible; Shepherds in literature; Christian literature
    Scope: xvii, 187 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen, 23 cm
  2. The Good Shepherd
    image, meaning, and power
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas

    A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both images, however, occupy an extensive tradition of... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both images, however, occupy an extensive tradition of shepherding motifs. In the transition from ancient Near Eastern depictions of the keeper of flocks as one holding great power to the more "pastoral" scenes of early Christian art, it might appear that connotations of rulership were divested from the image of the shepherd. The reality, however, presents a much more complex tapestry. "The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power" traces the visual and textual depictions of the Good Shepherd motif from its early iterations as a potent symbol of kingship, through its reimagining in biblical figures, such as the shepherd-king David, and onward to the shepherds of Greco-Roman literature. Jennifer Awes Freeman reveals that the figure of the Good Shepherd never became humble or docile but always carried connotations of empire, divinity, and defensive violence even within varied sociopolitical contexts. The early Christian invocation of the Good Shepherd was not simply anti-imperial but relied on a complex set of associations that included king, priest, pastor, and sacrificial victim—even as it subverted those meanings in the figure of Jesus, both shepherd and sacrificial lamb. The concept of the Good Shepherd continued to prove useful for early medieval rulers, such as Charlemagne, but its imperial references waned in the later Middle Ages as it became more exclusively applied to church leaders. Drawing on a range of sources including literature, theological treatises, and political texts, as well as sculpture, mosaics, and manuscript illuminations, The Good Shepherd offers a significant contribution as the first comprehensive study of the long history of the Good Shepherd motif. It also engages the flexible and multivalent abilities of visual and textual symbols to convey multiple meanings in religious and political contexts.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781481315371
    RVK Categories: LH 82880 ; NK 4950
    Subjects: Schäfer <Motiv>; Ikonographie
    Other subjects: Shepherds in the Bible; Shepherds in literature; Christian literature / History and criticism
    Scope: xvii, 187 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen, 23 cm
  3. The Good Shepherd
    image, meaning, and power
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas

    A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both images, however, occupy an extensive tradition of... more

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

     

    A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both images, however, occupy an extensive tradition of shepherding motifs. In the transition from ancient Near Eastern depictions of the keeper of flocks as one holding great power to the more "pastoral" scenes of early Christian art, it might appear that connotations of rulership were divested from the image of the shepherd. The reality, however, presents a much more complex tapestry. "The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power" traces the visual and textual depictions of the Good Shepherd motif from its early iterations as a potent symbol of kingship, through its reimagining in biblical figures, such as the shepherd-king David, and onward to the shepherds of Greco-Roman literature. Jennifer Awes Freeman reveals that the figure of the Good Shepherd never became humble or docile but always carried connotations of empire, divinity, and defensive violence even within varied sociopolitical contexts. The early Christian invocation of the Good Shepherd was not simply anti-imperial but relied on a complex set of associations that included king, priest, pastor, and sacrificial victim—even as it subverted those meanings in the figure of Jesus, both shepherd and sacrificial lamb. The concept of the Good Shepherd continued to prove useful for early medieval rulers, such as Charlemagne, but its imperial references waned in the later Middle Ages as it became more exclusively applied to church leaders. Drawing on a range of sources including literature, theological treatises, and political texts, as well as sculpture, mosaics, and manuscript illuminations, The Good Shepherd offers a significant contribution as the first comprehensive study of the long history of the Good Shepherd motif. It also engages the flexible and multivalent abilities of visual and textual symbols to convey multiple meanings in religious and political contexts.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781481315371
    RVK Categories: LH 82880 ; NK 4950
    Subjects: Schäfer <Motiv>; Ikonographie
    Other subjects: Shepherds in the Bible; Shepherds in literature; Christian literature / History and criticism
    Scope: xvii, 187 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen, 23 cm
  4. The Good Shepherd
    image, meaning, and power
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek, Archäologische Bibliothek
    BO 9670 A966
    No inter-library loan
    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2022 C 2874
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    Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent
    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
    71/13102
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    Index theologicus der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    73.4235
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781481315371
    Other identifier:
    9781481315371
    RVK Categories: NK 4950 ; LH 82880 ; BO 9670
    Subjects: Shepherds in the Bible; Shepherds in literature; Christian literature
    Scope: xvii, 187 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen, 23 cm