Dec 9, 2020 By: yunews
Dr. Shalom Holtz, professor of Bible and associate dean for academic affairs at , has co-edited Contextualizing Jewish Temples with Dr. Tova Ganzel, lecturer in Bible and halacha [Jewish law] at Bar-Ilan University. The volume is number 64 in the .
As Dr. Holtz explained, 鈥淛ewish 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.鈥 In other words, he said, 鈥渙ur volume brings together studies of temples in different historical periods with the aim of contrasting and comparing them.鈥
Ten essays comprise the book:
- 鈥淭he Sacred Bureaucracy of Neo-Babylonian Temples鈥 (Yuval Levavi)
- 鈥淧riestly Courses and the Administration of Time in Neo-Babylonian Temples鈥 (Caroline Waerzeggers)
- 鈥淭he Priestly Sabbath and the Calendar: between Literature and Material Culture鈥 (Jeffrey Stackert)
- 鈥淏etween the House of the Father and the House of the Lord: Privacy and Purity in the Israelite Dwelling and the Israelite Temple鈥 (Avraham Faust)
- 鈥淟iterary Artistry and Divine Presence 鈥(Gary A. Anderson)
- 鈥淵ahweh Become a Temple? MT Ezekiel 11:16 诪执拽职讚旨指郑砖讈 诪职注址謹讟 Revisited鈥 (Simeon Chavel)
- 鈥淥n Earth as It Is in Heaven: Heavenly and Earthly Temple in Ezekiel 40鈥48鈥 (Paul M. Joyce)
- 鈥淭he Temple Scroll and Mishnah Middot: a Literary Comparison鈥 (Lawrence H. Schiffman)
- 鈥淲hy Did the Early Christians Care about the Temple after 70 CE? The Case of the Gospel of Matthew鈥 (Eyal Regev)
- 鈥淒ivine Presence in the Absence of the Temple鈥 (Risa Levitt)
