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.”

“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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Methodology and the Example of Psalm 12 Analysis of the Pictorial Motifs in Selected Utrecht Psalter Illustrations3 Late Antique Galilee: The Context for the Creation of the Model for the Utrecht Psalter Illustrations4 The Style of the Utrecht Psalter and Its Relation to Late Antique Jewish ArtConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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.”

“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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Methodology and the Example of Psalm 12 Analysis of the Pictorial Motifs in Selected Utrecht Psalter Illustrations3 Late Antique Galilee: The Context for the Creation of the Model for the Utrecht Psalter Illustrations4 The Style of the Utrecht Psalter and Its Relation to Late Antique Jewish ArtConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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.”

“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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Methodology and the Example of Psalm 12 Analysis of the Pictorial Motifs in Selected Utrecht Psalter Illustrations3 Late Antique Galilee: The Context for the Creation of the Model for the Utrecht Psalter Illustrations4 The Style of the Utrecht Psalter and Its Relation to Late Antique Jewish ArtConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex