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SANCTITY OF TIME AND SPACE IN TRADITION AND MODERNITY JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES SERIES Editorial Board MARcELj.H.M. PooRTHUis, JosHuA SCHWARTZ, FREEK VAN DER STEEN Advisory Board PHILIP S. ALEXANDER - YVONNE FRIEDMAN - JUDITH FRISHMAN w. MARTIN GOODMAN - PIETER VAN DER HORST J. ANroN W HouTEPEN - GERARD AM. RouwHORST ZE'Ev SAFRAI - LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN L. GUNTER STEMBERGER - ROBERT WILKEN - DAPHNA YIZRAELI VOLUME I SANCTITY OF TIME AND SPACE IN TRADITION AND MODERNITY EDITED BY A. HOUTMAN MJ.H.M. POORTHUIS J. SCHWARTZ BRILL LEIDEN BOSTON KOLN 1998 Bar-Ilan Universiry, Israel - Catholic Universiry of Utrecht, The Netherlands This book is published with the financial support of The R.ennert Center far Jerusa/,em Studies, Faculty ofJ ewish Studies, Bar-Dan University, Israel This book is printed on acid-free paper. Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity / ed. by A. Houtman - Leiden ; Boston; Koln Brill, 1998 Qewish and Christian perspectives seiies; Vol. I) ISBN 90-04-11233-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is also available ISSN 1388-2074 ISBN 90 04 I 1233 2 © Copyright 1998 by Koninklijk Brill NV, Leiden, 7he Netherlands Cover design by Hennie L. de Groot All rights reseroed. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval .rystem, or transmitted in any farm or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission ftom the publisher. Authori;:.ation to photocopy items far internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid direct{y to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are su~ect to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS CONTENTS PREFACE VII PROLEGOMENA IX EDITORIAL ST AT EMENT X ALBERDINA HOUTMAN, MARCEL POORTHUIS & JOSHUA SCHWARTZ Introduction PART ONE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SACRED TIME AND SPACE BARUCH J. SCHWARTZ Torah from Zion: Isaiah's Temple Vision (Isaiah 2:1-4) 11 PANCRATIUS C. BEENTJES Transformations of Space and Time: Nathan's Oracle and David's Prayer in 1 Chronicles 17 27 BART J. KOET Holy Place and Hannah's Prayer: A Comparison of a LAB 50-51 and Luke 2:22-39 Propos 1 Samuel 1-2 45 MARTIEN PARMENTIER The Lasting Sanctity of Bethesda 73 LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN Ir Ha-Miqdash and its Meaning in the Temple Scroll and Other Qumran Texts 95 VI CONTENTS PART TWO POSTBIBLICAL PERIOD Judaism LIEVE TEUGELS Holiness and Mysticism at Sinai According to the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael 113 SHMUEL SAFRAI Jerusalem and the Temple in the Tannaitic Literature of the First Generation after the Destruction of the Temple 135 ALBERDINA HOUTMAN 'They Direct Their Hearts to Jerusalem': References to Jerusalem and Temple in Mishnah and Tosefta Berakhot 153 JOSHUA SCHWARTZ, 'To Stand-Perhaps to Sit': Sitting and Standing in the Azarah in the Second Temple Period 167 Christianity ZE'EV SAFRAI The Institutionalization of the Cult of Saints in Christian Society 193 HILLEL ISAAC NEWMAN Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem: Jerome and the Holy Places of Palestine 215 Judaism and Christianity MARCEL POORTHUIS Moses' Rod in Zipporah's Garden 231 GERARD ROUWHORST Liturgical Time and Space in Early Christianity In Light of Their Jewish Background 265 AARON DEMSKY Holy City and Holy Land as Viewed by Jews and CONTENTS VII Christians in the Byzantine Period: A Conceptual Approach to Sacred Space 285 PART THREE MODERN PERIOD PAUL POST Post-modern Pilgrimage: Christian Ritual Between Liturgy and 'Topolatry' 299 OPHIR YARDEN The Sanctity of Mount Herzl and Independence Day in Israel's Civil Religion 317 AMOS RON A Rachel for Everyone: The Kinneret Cemetery as a Site of Civil Pilgrimage 349 Appendix: Translation of the 29 line Re}:iob Inscription 361 Maps and Illustrations 364 Index of Names and Subjects 369 Index of Ancient Sources 374 PREFACE In June of 1993, scholars from Israel, the United States and the Netherlands met at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel for a conference devoted to 'The Centrality of Jerusalem' The confer ence was organized by the Department of Land of Israel Studies of Bar-Ilan University and the Catholic Theological University of Utrecht. This was the beginning of a fruitful discussion and ex change between these two institutions, a Jewish and a Catholic University, examining issues of supreme importance to each re ligion, searching for what unites them while at the same time pointing out what is unique to each. The results of that conference were published by M. Poorthuis and Ch. Safrai as The Centrality ofJ erusalem: Historical Perspectives (Kampen, 1996). Three years later, in August of 1996, a second conference was held once again at Bar-Ilan University, this time under the aus pices of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan (founded in 1995) and the continued auspices of Catholic Theological University of Utrecht and its research project "Re latie Jodendom Christendom" This conference was devoted to the theme 'Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Moder nity', a direct outgrowth of the study of Jerusalem at the first con ference and once again studied both that which unites as well as which divides Judaism and Christianity regarding issues of sanc tity at the very core of their individual existences. The present volume represents the fruits of that conference and proves once again that peaceful scholarly discussion can well bridge gaps cre ated by centuries of tension and often much worse. At the con clusion of the proceedings, an agreement of cooperation was signed between Bar-Ilan University and the Catholic Theological University expressing a desire for continued dialogue and ex change in order to tackle the study of even the thorniest of issues important to both religions. This discussion will be continued at the next conference to take place at the Catholic Theological Uni- X PREFACE versity in Utrecht, June-July 1998, and will be devoted to the study of 'Purity and Holiness' in Judaism and Christianity. The present volume, as well as the one to be published based on the proceedings of the 'Purity and Holiness' conference appear or will appear as part of a new series of E.J. Brill in Leyden enti tled: Jewish and Christian Perspectives to be published in co operation with the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies of Bar-Ilan University and the Catholic Theological University of Utrecht. The series in general will attempt to present findings relative to both Jewish and Christian tradition to a broad audience of scholars. It is our hope that this first volume of the new series will represent both increased dialogue and study. Thanks are due to the editor, Mr. Freek van der Steen, whose in defatigable efforts were indispensable for the realization of this volume and of the series at large. Thanks are due also to our pub lisher Brill in Leiden for the confidence in this project. Utrecht and Ramat-Gan, May 1998 Alberdina Houtman Marcel Poorthuis Joshua Schwartz Dr Alberdina Houtman is research fellow at the Theological Uni versity of Kampen, The Netherlands. Dr Marcel Poorthuis is Coordinator of the research project "Re latie Jodendom Christendom" (RJC) at the Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Prof. Dr Joshua Schwartz is Director of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies and Professor of Historical Geogra phy of Ancient Israel at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
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