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Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel
By John Day
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Description
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.Â
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
578
Release Date:
2005-07-01
Publication Date:
2005-06-29
Publisher:
T & T Clark International
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0567042626
ISBN13:
9780567042620
Weight:
1024 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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