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Script in Jewish Art
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Script is a common element in art in general and in religious art in particular. In Jewish culture, which discouraged pictorial expression, script became a dominant element in art and, in certain periods or media, even the core of the artwork itself. Moreover, although the vernacular spoken by Jews all over the Diaspora was anything but Hebrew, the Hebrew Scriptures, mainly the Bible, became the source of the scripts interwoven in art. This phenomenon typifies Jewish art of a religious nature, s…
