Jesus and Temple: Textual and Archaeological Explorations

300 Pages·2014·4.44 MB·English

by  James H. Charlesworth

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those discussions are often not current with the latest archaeological
and related findings. James H. Charlesworth here gathers essays from
world-renowned archaeologists and biblical scholars to address the
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Introduction: Devotion to and Reverence for Jerusalem and
Textual and Archaeological Explorations
Worship in Jerusalem’s Temple: the Temple in Galilean Society
A Phenomenological and Sociological —Mordechai Aviam a
Glimpse—James H. Charlesworth Jesus and the Temple n
JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH, EDITOR
Imagining the Temple Known to Jesus —James H. Charlesworth d
and to Early Jews—Leen Ritmeyer
The Temple and Jesus’ Followers

The Second Temple in Jerusalem —James H. Charlesworth T
—Dan Bahat
The Temple and Jesus the High Priest e
The Importance of the Temple in the New Testament
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for Ancient Jews —Harold W. Attridge
—Lawrence H. Schiffman
An Unperceived Early Jewish- p
The Psalms as Hymns in the Temple Christian Temple Source
of Jerusalem—Gary Rendsburg —George T. Zervos le
James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New
Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary
and editor of the seminary’s Dead Sea Scrolls project. He has edited
Hillel andJesus (1997, with Loren L. Johns) and The Messiah (Fortress
Press, 1992), and The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols. (1983,
1985). He has also authored numerous works, including The Good and
Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized (2010);
The Historical Jesus (2008); and Jesus and Archaeology (2006).
RELIGION / NEW TESTAMENT
JESUS AND TEMPLE

JESUS AND TEMPLE
TEXTUAL AND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EXPLORATIONS
JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH, EDITOR
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JESUS AND TEMPLE
Textual and Archaeological Explorations
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CONTENTS
Contributors ix
Preface: Herod the Great, Hillel, Jesus, and Their Temple xi
Introduction: Devotion to and Worship in Jerusalem’s Temple 1
James H. Charlesworth
1. Imagining the Temple Known to Jesus and to Early Jews 19
Leen Ritmeyer
2. The Second Temple in Jerusalem 59
Dan Bahat
3. The Importance of the Temple for Ancient Jews 75
Lawrence H. Schiffman
4. The Psalms as Hymns in the Temple of Jerusalem 95
Gary A. Rendsburg
5. Reverence for Jerusalem and the Temple in Galilean Society 123
Mordechai Aviam
6. Jesus and the Temple 145
James H. Charlesworth
7. The Temple and Jesus’ Followers 183
James H. Charlesworth
8. The Temple and Jesus the High Priest in the New Testament 213
Harold W. Attridge
9. An Unperceived Early Jewish-Christian Temple Source 239
George T. Zervos
Selected Bibliography 261
Brady Alan Beard
Index of Biblical and Ancient Literature References 273
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Contributors
Harold W. Attridge, Sterling Professor of Divinity at Yale Divinity
School, is the author of numerous books on Hellenistic Judaism, including
Hebrews(Hermeneia).
Mordecai Aviam, Director of the Institute for Galilean Archaeology at
Kinneret Academic College, Israel, is the former District Archaeologist of the
Western Galilee for the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Dan Bahat, associate professor, faculty of theology, University of St.
Michael’sCollege,UniversityofToronto,waspreviouslyDistrictArchaeologist
ofJerusalemintheIsraelDepartmentofAntiquities.HeistheauthorofCarta’s
Atlas of Jerusalem(1980)andThe Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem(1990).
JamesH.Charlesworth,GeorgeL.CollardProfessorofNewTestament
Languages and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, is the Chief
Editor of the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project and the author of numerous
articles and books.
GaryRendsburg,BlancheandIrvingLaurieProfesssorofJewishHistory,
Rutgers University, is the author of numerous books and articles including, as
co-author with Cyrus Gordon,The Bible and the Ancient Near East(1990).
Leen Ritmeyer, archaeologist, architect, and founder of Ritmeyer
Archaeological Design, is chief architect on a number of projects, including the
HerodianVillasinJerusalemandtheTempleMount.Hisdoctorateisfromthe
University of Manchester, England.
Lawrence H. Schiffman, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education,
YeshivaUniversity,istheformerchairofNewYorkUniversity’sSkirballDept.
of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and past president of the Association for Jewish
Studies. Heisthe author ofReclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls andother landmark
works in second-temple halakah.
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