| Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel Contributor(s): Day, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0567045714 ISBN-13: 9780567045713 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $79.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2007 Annotation: This major work on the Temple and worship in biblical Israel contains 23 essays by an impressive array of international scholars. It ranges widely from the ancient Near Eastern and archaeological background, through the Old Testament and Late Second Temple Judaism, as far as the New Testament. 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 role and fate of the Ark of the Covenant, the Day of Atonement, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, first century Judaism, as well as in the New Testament. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament |
| Dewey: 296.491 |
| Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.32" W x 9.2" (1.97 lbs) 584 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |