Book Notes

158 SHOFAR Summer 1993 Vol. 11, No.4 BOOK NOTES Annotations of books in German and Italian were written by Walter Hirsch and Anthony Tamburri of Purdue University, respectively. Reference materials in all fields are listed under "Reference." American Jewish Life The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections ofa]ewish Southerner, by Eli N. Evans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. 357 pp. $25.00 (c). ISBN 0-87805-627-0. Eli N. Evans' grandmother helped him to appreciate the place of the southern Jew in the South, noting that she felt like an outsider on Sundays when the rest of the town went to church. This volume of essays concerns itself with the meaning of southern, American, and Jewish history. Ancient World and Archaeology The Archaeology ofAncient Israel, edited by Amnon Ben-Tor, translated by R. Greenberg. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. 416 pp. 260 b/w + 40 colorplates. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-04768-l. In this book some ofIsrael's foremost archaeologists present a survey of the research of the last hundred years. They discuss the history of ancient Israel from the Neolithic era (eighth millennium B.C.E.) to the fall ofJerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B.C.E. Each chapter describes a different era as seen through relevant archaeological discoveries. Illustrations fill out discussions of developments in religious practices, architecture, technology, customs, arts and crafts, warfare, writing, cult practices, and trade. Book Notes 159 Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt: With an Index of the Jewish Inscriptions ofEgypt and Cyrenaica by William Horbury and David Noy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 378 pp. $110.00. ISBN 0521 -41870-4. All known Jewish inscriptions from Greek and Roman Egypt are collected in this book. Egypt was of particular importance in Jewish life and thought in the Graeco-Roman world and offers an unusually large number of pre-Christian Jewish inscriptions. The present collection contains primary information on the history and religion of the period. In each entry a text of the inscription is accompanied by critical apparatus, translation, bibliography, and commentary. Computerization has facilitated the provision of a large number of categories in the comprehensive indexing, which also covers Cyrenaica (closely linked with Egypt). Photographs of many inscriptions are reproduced. Art, Music, and Film The Complete Films of the Marx Brothers, by Allen Eyles. New York: Citadel Press, 1993. 256 pp. $17.95 (P). ISBN 0-8065-1301-2. This volume chronicles every movie in which the Marx brothers appeared and also their early vaudeville and musical performances. It includes photographs, listings of casts, credits, comments from peers and critics, and classic bits of Marx Brothers repartee, as well as a biography and filmography of Margaret Dumont, a frequent foil for the brothers. Depiction andInterpretation: The Influence ofthe Holocaust on the Visual Arts, by Zvi Amishai-Maisels. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1993. 567 pp.£120. ISBN 0-08-040656-4. The influence of the Holocaust on literature and philosophy has long been accepted and studied, while its influence on the visual arts has been paid scant attention. Studies so far published concentrate on such aspects as art produced in the camps or by former camp inmates and have rarely attempted to define the extent to which the Holocaust , as a major historical event, influenced Western art as a whole. This study shows how different groups ofartists with varying purposes set out to answer the question, "How does one deal with the Holocaust in Art?" Among the artists discussed in this book are Picasso, 160 SHOFAR Summer 1993 Vol. 11, No.4 Chagall, Grosz, Kiefer, Matta, Steinhardt, Tumarking, Rothko, Fautrier,. Grunding, Beckmann, and Kitaj, with over 650 illustrations. Biblical and Rabbinic Literature Ain't Gonna Study War No More: Biblical Ambiguity and the Abolition of War, by Albert Curry Winn. louisville, KY: Westminsterl.John Knox, 1993. 112 pp. $10.99 (P). ISBN 0-664-25207-9. While some biblical passages condemn violence and long for peace, others tell of the wars of God's people and picture God as commanding war. This book examines the ambiguity that is faithful to Scripture yet encourages a reliance on war as a means for...