Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel
Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567042620
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 29/06/2005
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This major work examines the subject of Temple and Worship in biblical Israel, ranging from their ancient Near Eastern and archaeological background, through the Old Testament and Late Second Temple Judaism, and up to the New Testament. It is the product of an international team of twenty-three noted scholars.
Special attention is paid to such subjects as the ideology of temples and the evidence for high places in Israel and the Canaanite world; the architecture and symbolism of Solomon's Temple; the attitude of various parts of the Old Testament to the Temple and cult, including that of several prophets; the light shed on Temple worship by the Psalms; the role and fate of the Ark of the Covenant; and the Day of Atonement. It also examines attitudes to the Temple in the Septuagint, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, first-century Judaism, and the New Testament.
This important work is the product of an impressive array of twenty-three noted scholars.
The contributors include John Barton, H.G.M. Williamson, John Day, Susan Gillingham, John Jarick, C.T.R. Hayward, Michael Knibb, George Brooke, Martin Goodman, Christopher Rowland and Larry Kreitzer.
Part 1. Temples and High Places in Israel and the Canaanite World; Like Deities, Like Temples (Like People), Mark S. Smith, New York University; Massebot in the Israelite Cult: An Argument for making Implicit Cultic Criteria Explicit, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Tel Dor excavations; From Gibeon to Gibeah: High Place of the Kingdom, Simcha Shalom Brooks, Freelance scholar working in London; Part 2. Temple and Worship in the Old Testament; YHWH's Exalted House - Aspects of the Design and Symbolism of Solomon's Temple, Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; The Prophets and the Cult, John Barton, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Isaiah 6, H.G.M. Williamson, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Ezekiel 40-48, Paul Joyce, University of Oxford; Divine Reversal and the Role of the Temple in Trito-Isaiah, Jill Middlemas, The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Placing (a) God: Central Place Theory in Deuteronomy 12 and Delphi, Anselm Hagedorn, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin; Merely a Container? The Ark in Deuteronomy, Ian Wilson, Freelance scholar working in Cambridge; Whatever happened to the Ark of the Covenant? John Day,; University of Oxford; Ordeals in the Psalms? Philip Johnston, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Wisdom Psalms, Stuart Weeks, University of Durham; The Zion Tradition and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter, Susan Gillingham, University of Oxford; The Day of Atonement as a Ritual of Validation for the High Priest, Deborah Rooke, King's College, University of London; The Temple of David in the Book of Chronicles, John Jarick, St Stephen's House, Oxford; Part 3. The Temple in the Late Second Temple Period and the New Testament; Understandings of the Temple Service in the Septuagint Pentateuch, C.T.R. Hayward, University of Durham; The Temple in the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Literature of the Second and First Centuries BCE, Michael Knibb, King's College, University of London. The Temple(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls, George Brooke, University of Manchester; New Voices, Ancient Words: The Temple Scroll's Reuse of the Bible, Molly Zahn, University of Notre Dame; The Temple in First Century CE Judaism, Martin Goodman, University of Oxford; The Temple in the New Testament, Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford; The Messianic Man of Peace as Temple Builder: Solomonic Imagery in Ephesians 2. 13-22, Larry Kreitzer, Regent's Park College, Oxford.
"Each essay has been thoroughly researched and many conclude with substantial biographies which help to make this volume a very valuable resource. It represents scholarship at its highest level and between them the contributors have produced a comprehensive study of a central biblcal theme...the interplay between the essays that results from a continuous reading of this volume produces another level of insight into the significance of Temple and worship in the development of Israel's identity and self-understanding. Highly recommended." J.E. Tollington, SOTS Booklist, 2006 -- J.E. Tollington Review in International Review of Biblical Studies, vol. 54:2007/08 "The essays, expanded versions of lectures delivered to the Oxford Old Testament Seminar between 2001 and 2003, are of exceptionally high quality. The collection is a must for theological libraries."- Richard J. Clifford, 68, 2006 * Catholic Biblical Quarterly * 'The collection as a whole...is a good example of the contemporary flourishing of the kind of rigorous and meticulous historical study that has been a central characteristic of modern Old Testament scholarship....The level of the essays is advanced, appropriate to those at home in Old Testament scholarship. Many aspects of Israel's temple, and practices and literature related to it within their ancient context, are indeed illuminated.' Walter Moberly, Expository Times, 01/10/2006 -- Walter Moberly * Expository Times * Synopsis' of Individual Reviews by Deborah Rooke / Anselm Hagedorn / HGM WIlliamson / Jill Middlemas / Susan Gillingham / Philip S. Johnston / Simcha Shalom Brooks / Elizabeth Block-Smith / Mark S Smith / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz / John Day / Martin Goodman in the International Review of Biblical Studies * Intl. Review of Biblical Studies * "The interweaving of the richly visionary and the precise mathematical in these chapters is striking." -- Paul M Joyce, International Review of Biblical Studies * Intl. Review of Biblical Studies *
