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.
Show moreThis 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.
Show morePart 1. Temples and High Places in Israel and the Canaanite
World
1. Like Deities, Like Temples (Like People), Mark S. Smith,
Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, New
York University
2. Massebot in the Israelite Cult: An Argument for making Implicit
Cultic Criteria Explicit, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Senior staff
member on the Tel Dor excavations (she has been adjunct professor
at various American universities)
3. From Gibeon to Gibeah: High Place of the Kingdom, Simcha Shalom
Brooks, Freelance scholar working in London (teaches part-time at
Birkbeck College, London)
Part 2. Temple and Worship in the Old
Testament
4. YHWH's Exalted House - Aspects of the Design and Symbolism of
Solomon's Temple, Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz, Professor of Bible and
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Beer Sheva, Israel
5. The Prophets and the Cult, John Barton, Oriel and Laing
Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, University of
Oxford, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
6. Temple and Worship in Isaiah 6, H.G.M. Williamson, Regius
Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford, and Student of Christ
Church, Oxford
7. Temple and Worship in Ezekiel 40-48, Paul Joyce, Fellow and
Tutor of St Peter's College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Theology (Old
Testament) in the University of Oxford
8. Divine Reversal and the Role of the Temple in Trito-Isaiah, Jill
Middlemas, Liddon Research Fellow in Theology, Keble College,
Oxford, and Hebrew Lector, The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies
9. Placing (a) God: Central Place Theory in Deuteronomy 12 and
Delphi, Anselm Hagedorn, wissenschaftlicher Assistent in Old
Testament/Hebrew Bible at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin;
previously Kennicott Hebrew Fellow, Oxford University
10. Merely a Container? The Ark in Deuteronomy, Ian Wilson,
Freelance scholar working in Cambridge. Life member of Clare Hall,
Cambridge
11. Whatever happened to the Ark of the Covenant? John Day,
Professor of Old Testament Studies, University of Oxford, and
Fellow and Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
12. Ordeals in the Psalms? Philip Johnston, Tutor in Old Testament
and Hebrew, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Wisdom Psalms, Stuart Weeks,
Lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew, University of Durham
13. The Zion Tradition and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter, Susan
Gillingham, Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College, Oxford, and
Lecturer in Theology (Old Testament) in the University of
Oxford
14. The Day of Atonement as a Ritual of Validation for the High
Priest, Deborah Rooke, Lecturer in Old Testament Studies, King's
College, University of London 15. The Temple of David in the Book
of Chronicles, John Jarick, Tutor in Old Testament, St Stephen's
House, Oxford
Part 3. The Temple in the Late Second Temple Period and the
New Testament
16. Understandings of the Temple Service in the Septuagint
Pentateuch, C.T.R. Hayward, Professor of Hebrew, University of
Durham
17. The Temple in the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Literature of
the Second and First Centuries BCE, Michael Knibb, Samuel Davidson
Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies, King's College,
University of London
18. The Ten Temples in the Dead Sea Scrolls, George Brooke,
Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, University of
Manchester
19. New Voices, Ancient Words: The Temple Scroll's Reuse of the
Bible, Molly Zahn, Doctoral student in the department of Theology,
University of Notre Dame 20. The Temple in First Century CE
Judaism, Martin Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies, University of
Oxford, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
21. The Temple in the New Testament, Christopher Rowland, Dean
Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University
of Oxford, and Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford
22. The Messianic Man of Peace as Temple Builder: Solomonic Imagery
in Ephesians 2.13-22, Larry Kreitzer, Fellow and Tutor in New
Testament, Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Research Lecturer in
Theology in the University of Oxford
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.
John Day is Professor of Old Testament Studies in the University of Oxford, and Fellow & Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has written or edited numerous books and articles, and in 2014 is President of the Society for Old Testament Study.
"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
*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."
*Intl. Review of Biblical Studies*
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