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Ecclesia and Synagoga, or Ecclesia et Synagoga in Latin, meaning "Church and Synagogue", are a pair of figures personifying the Church and the Jewish synagogue, that is to say the Jewish religion, found in medieval Christian art. They often appear sculpted as large figures on either side of a church portal, as in the most famous examples, those at Strasbourg Cathedral. They may also be found standing on either side of the cross in scenes of the ''Crucifixion'', especially in Romanesque art, and less frequently in a variety of other contexts.〔See Schiller's Index, or Chapter III, pp. 31–66, in Schreckenburg〕 The two figures are shown as women, both usually young and attractive; Ecclesia is generally adorned with a crown, chalice and cross-topped staff, looking confidently forward. In contrast, Synagoga is blindfolded and drooping, carrying a broken lance (possibly an allusion to the Holy Lance that stabbed Christ) and the Tablets of the Law or Torah scrolls that may even be slipping from her hand.〔Michael, 42〕 The staff and spear may have pennants flying from them. In images of the ''Crucifixion'', Ecclesia may hold a chalice that catches the blood spurting from the side of Christ; she often holds the chalice as an attribute in other contexts.〔Schiller, II, 159〕 Attributes sometimes carried by Synagoga include a sheep or goat or just its head, signifying Old Testament sacrifice, in contrast to Ecclesia's chalice which represents the Christian Eucharist. If not blindfold, Synagoga usually looks down.〔Schiller, II, 112〕 Ecclesia has an earlier history, and in medieval art Synagoga occasionally appears alone in various contexts, but the pair, or Ecclesia by herself, are far more common. Further subjects where the pair may sometimes be found are the Tree of Jesse, and the Nativity.〔Schiller, I, 17, 19, 73–76〕 The first appearance of such figures in a ''Crucifixion'' is in a historiated initial in the Drogo Sacramentary of c. 830, but though Ecclesia already has most of her usual features already present, the figure representing the Jews or the Old Covenant is here a seated white-haired old man.〔Rose, 9; Schiller, II, 110; Rose,9〕 The pair, now with a female Jewish partner, are then found in several later Carolingian carved ivory relief panels of the ''Crucifixion'' for book covers, dating from around 870,〔Rowe, 52, says there are seven late Carolingian ivory book covers, which she discusses, 57–59〕 and remain common in miniatures and various small works until the 10th century. They are then less common in ''Crucifixions'' in the 11th century, but reappear in the 12th century in a more strongly contrasted way that emphasizes the defeat of Synagoga; it is at this point that a blindfolded Synagoga with a broken lance becomes usual. The figures continue to be found in ''Crucifixions'' until the early 14th century, and occur later in various contexts but are increasingly less common. The surviving portal figures mainly date from the 13th century.〔Schiller, II, 110–112; Schreckenburg, 31–34; Rose, 9-11〕 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, there is a sculpture at St. Joseph's University, blessed by Pope Francis, entitled "Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time", created in 2015 by recognized Philadelphia sculptor Joshua Koffman. In this sculpture, Ecclesia and Synagoga hold their respective sacred scriptures, and each looks at the other's book. The two figures are shown as respectful equals.〔(news story ); (St. Joseph's University )〕 ==Meaning== The medieval figures reflect the Christian belief, sometimes called Supersessionism, that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, and that Judaism as a religion was therefore made unnecessary, by its own tenets, once Christianity was established, and that all Jews should convert. Today opposed by dual-covenant theology, this belief was universal in the medieval church. Synagoga's blindfold reflected the refusal of medieval Jews to "see" this point, which was regarded as stubborn.〔Rowe, 18〕 The Gospel of Matthew (27, 51) related that the Veil of the Temple, covering the entrance to the Holy of Holies, tore at the moment of Christ's death on the cross, which was taken to symbolize the moment of the replacement of Judaism by Christianity as the true religion, hence the presence of the pair in ''Crucifixion'' scenes.〔Schiller, II, 110–112〕 The blind covering Synagoga's eyes derived from the letter of Saint Paul at II Corinthians 3:13-16:〔Lewis, 548, note 24; (II Corinthians, 3 (NIV, UK) )〕 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away The sculpted portal figures are generally found on the cathedrals of larger cities in northern Europe that had significant Jewish communities, especially in Germany, and apart from their theological significance, were certainly also intended to remind Jews of their place in a Christian society, by projecting "an ideal of Jewish submission within an ideally ordered Christian realm".〔Rowe, 81-83, 81 quoted〕 They are therefore very prominent, but not very common. Many Jews, like Christians, conducted business in churches, and would pass the figures as they came and went. However, unlike many medieval depictions of Jewish figures (other than those from the Hebrew Bible), there is very rarely any element of a hostile caricature in the depiction of Synagoga who, if clearly defeated, is often strikingly beautiful, as at Strasboug.〔Spitzer, 358-359〕 There are examples on the portals of the cathedrals at Minden, Bamberg, Metz and Freiburg Minster in Germany, and Notre Dame de Paris. In England there are remains of pairs, after damage or destruction in the English Reformation, from the cathedrals of Rochester, Lincoln, Salisbury, and Winchester;〔(''Ecclesia et Synagoga'' ), Encyclopaedia Judaica〕 the cathedrals of the two largest commercial centres, London and York, both date from later periods, but may have had them on earlier buildings. Surviving from the chapter house of York Minster are over life-size paintings on oak from a group of 48 supporting the roof vault and stained glass figures from the vestibule.〔Alexander & Binski, 346-347〕 Châlons Cathedral and the Basilique Saint-Denis have versions in stained glass, respectively large and small. During the 14th century they become much rarer, replaced in ''Crucifixion'' scenes by large numbers of figures of soldiers and disciples, but some examples are found in the 15th century and later. A rare carved misericord at Erfurt Cathedral shows the pair jousting on horses; unsurprisingly, Ecclesia is winning. As with many misericords, this was probably intended as a humorous version of iconography treated with full seriousness in more prominent locations.〔Schreckenburg, 61〕 In her book on the pair, Nina Rowe is sceptical of the traditional assumption of art historians that the hostility implicit in later depictions is found in the earliest ones. She relates the figures to Late Antique uses of personifications, including contrasting figures of orthodox Christianity and either paganism or heresy, especially Arianism,〔Rowe, 40–47〕 and suggests that the identity of "Synagoga" was more variable before the millennium, with Jerusalem or its Temple being alternative identifications.〔Rowe, 58–61〕 She describes the revival in use of the pair, now couched in more combative terms, as a reaction both to the influx into Western Europe of larger Jewish populations during the late 10th to the 12th centuries, and also to the Twelfth-century Renaissance, which involved contacts between Christian and Jewish scholars, who discussed their different interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. This made Christian theologians, mostly monastic, much more aware than previously of the existence of a vibrant Jewish theological tradition subsequent to the writing of the Hebrew Bible. Previously, Early Medieval Christians had seen the Jews as merely, as they were described by Augustine, ""librarians" or "servants" carrying the books for their Christian betters".〔Rowe, 61–62, 62 quote〕 The increased contacts therefore had the paradoxical effect of making monasteries more aware that there was an alternative tradition of exegesis and scholarship, and stimulating them to counter this. There was also a tradition of dramatized disputations between the two figures, which reached its height somewhat later than depictions in art, but had a similar geographical distribution.〔Spitzer, 357-358〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ecclesia and Synagoga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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