Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Methodology and the Example of Psalm 1

2 Analysis of the Pictorial Motifs in Selected Utrecht Psalter Illustrations

3 Late Antique Galilee: The Context for the Creation of the Model for the Utrecht Psalter Illustrations

4 The Style of the Utrecht Psalter and Its Relation to Late Antique Jewish Art

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Pamela Berger is Professor of Art History and Film at Boston College. She is the author of The Crescent on the Temple: The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary; The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectress from Goddess to Saint; and The Insignia of the “Notitia Dignitatum.”

Reviews

“All scholars of early medieval art will want to read this book, along with anyone interested in cultural connections between late antiquity and the Carolingian age. It is the most important study of the Utrecht Psalter in a long time.”—Frederick Paxton, author of Anchoress and Abbess in Ninth-Century Saxony: The “Lives” of Liutbirga of Wendhausen and Hathumoda of Gandersheim

“From the perspectives of religion, literature, and art history, this exciting book greatly expands and advances the interpretive possibilities of two acknowledged masterpieces, here in dialogue with one another. Hebrew Psalms and the Utrecht Psalter brings the discussion to the fore.”—Theodore A. Perry, author of God’s Twilight Zone: Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible

“Berger’s thesis, highlighting the confluence between the two faiths in northern France, is an important contribution to interfaith studies not only of the Utrecht Psalter but of the contemporary Stuttgart Psalter as well.”—Sue Gillingham Journal for the Study of the Old Testament