Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One Jewish and Christian Reciprocal Influences -- The Dura-Europos Synagogue and Baptistery -- The Earthly and Heavenly Tabernacle/Temple in the Dura-Europos Synagogue -- Chapter Two The Blueprint of Creation in the Bible and Its Allegorical Interpretations -- The Biblical Link between the Tabernacle and Creation -- Philo of Alexandria and Josephus Flavius -- Chapter Three Creation in Christian Works -- Constantine of Antioch's "System of the World" -- The Christian Topography's Schema of Creation -- The Apostolic Constitutions: A Link to a Shared Exegetical Method? -- The Octateuchs and Other Byzantine Artistic Expressions of Creation -- Chapter Four Creation as Interpreted in Jewish Art -- Visual Models of Creation in Ancient Synagogues -- Midrashic Literature and the Symbolic Significance of the Tabernacle/Creation Parallelism -- Chapter Five Visualizing Creation in a Fourteenth-Century Jewish Manuscript -- The Sarajevo Haggadah's Visual Model of the Tabernacle/Creation -- The Structural Frame of the Illustrations in the Sarajevo Creation Cycle -- The Approach to Creation Cosmology in Mid-Thirteenth-Century Spain -- The Sarajevo Haggadah's Creation Images in Light of Rabbinic Commentaries -- Chapter Six The Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant -- Christian Cosmological and Theological Concepts -- Jewish Antecedents of the Ark/Tabernacle/Creation Symbols -- Chapter Seven The Temple: History and Ideology -- The Temple in Early Jewish Thought -- Halakhic Developments after the Destruction of the Temple -- Chapter Eight The Synagogue as a Minor Temple -- Transferring Temple Symbols to the Synagogue -- The Consecration of the Tabernacle and Its Significance for Synagogue Liturgy -- The Role of the Rabbis in the Synagogue.

The Temple Implements in Samaritan Synagogues -- Chapter Nine Schematic Models: Forms of Visual Interpretation -- Two Ways of Imaging the Tabernacle and the Holy of Holies -- The Karaite Perception of the Temple and Its Implements -- Chapter Ten Perspective Imaging of the Tabernacle -- Perspective Imaging on the Gold-Glass Base -- Perspective Imaging in the Christian Topography and the Octateuchs -- Perspective Imaging in Codex Grandior and Codex Amiatinus -- Perspective Imaging in Pantokrator 61-the Marginal Psalter from Mount Athos -- Comparing the Four Conceptual Reflections -- Chapter Eleven The Art of Memory: The Sanctuary, Its Sacrifices, and Its Cosmic Import -- The Tabernacle and Its Vessels on the Frontispieces of Sephardi Bibles -- The Cosmological Aspect of the Golden Menorah and the Showbread Table -- The Encampment in the Desert as a Reflection of the Divine Pattern -- Chapter Twelve Christian Supersession of Jewish Ideas -- New Testament Cosmology: The Tabernacle and the Kingdom of Heaven -- The Church as the Successor to the Tabernacle/Temple -- Creation, the Tabernacle, and Christian Eschatology -- Epilogue -- Addendum -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations.