Description
Book SynopsisJewish temples stood in Jerusalem for nearly one thousand years and were a dominant feature in the life of the ancient Judeans throughout antiquity. This volume strives to obtain a diachronic and topical cross-section of central features of the varied aspects of the Jewish temples that stood in Jerusalem, one that draws on and incorporates different disciplinary and methodological viewpoints. Ten contributions are included in this volume by: Gary A. Anderson; Simeon Chavel; Avraham Faust; Paul M. Joyce; Yuval Levavi; Risa Levitt; Eyal Regev; Lawrence H. Schiffman; Jeffrey Stackert; Caroline Waerzeggers, edited by Tova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz.
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Tova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz 2 The Sacred Bureaucracy of Neo-Babylonian Temples Yuval Levavi 3 Priestly Courses and the Administration of Time in Neo-Babylonian Temples Caroline Waerzeggers 4 The Priestly Sabbath and the Calendar: between Literature and Material Culture Jeffrey Stackert 5 Between the House of the Father and the House of the Lord: Privacy and Purity in the Israelite Dwelling and the Israelite Temple Avraham Faust 6 Literary Artistry and Divine Presence Gary A. Anderson 7 Yahweh Become a Temple? MT Ezekiel 11:16 מִקְדָּ֣שׁ מְעַ֔ט Revisited Simeon Chavel 8 On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Heavenly and Earthly Temple in Ezekiel 40–48 Paul M. Joyce 9 The Temple Scroll and Mishnah Middot: a Literary Comparison Lawrence H. Schiffman 10 Why Did the Early Christians Care about the Temple after 70 CE? The Case of the Gospel of Matthew Eyal Regev 11 Divine Presence in the Absence of the Temple Risa Levitt Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Subjects
