The idol in the icon: some ambiguities / M. Barasch -- Two kinds of representation in Greek religious art / M. Finkelberg -- The truth of images: Cicero and Varro on image worship / H. Cancik and H. Cancik-Lindemaier -- Portraits, likenesses and looking glasses: some literary and philosophical reflections on representation and art in medieval India / P. Granoff -- Indian image-worship and its discontents / R.H. Davis -- The 'iconic' and 'aniconic' Buddha visualization in medieval Chinese Buddhism / K. Shinohara -- Jewish artists and the representation of God / H. Künzl -- Jewish art and 'iconoclasm': the case of Sepphoris / B. Kühnel -- Literarische und visuelle Hermeneutik oder die Unmöglichkeit der Ikone Gottes / A.R.E. Agus -- Torah: between presence and representation of the divine in Jewish mysticism / M. Idel -- Representations of the Jewish body in modern times: forms of hero worship / R.I. Cohen -- Monumental mockery: sacred regality and dramatic representation in early modern England / J.R. Siemon -- Pictures versus letters: William Warburton's theory of grammatological iconoclasm / J. Assmann -- The roots of modern iconoclasm / A. Besançon -- The absent artist / P. Springer -- Iconoclasm on the 20th century musical stage (Schönberg, Henze and Glass) / W.-D. Hartwich.