From the foundations to the crenellations : essays on temple building in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible / edited by Mark J. Boda and Jamie Novotny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Richard S.

Boda, Mark J.

Novotny, Jamie R.

Series:

Alter Orient und Altes Testament ; Bd. 366.

Alter Orient und Altes Testament ; Bd. 366

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ellis, Richard S.

Bible. Old Testament--History of Biblical events.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Temples--Middle East--Design and construction.

Temples.

Temples--Middle East--Antiquities.

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).

Antiquities.

History of Biblical events.

Palestine--Antiquities.

Palestine.

Middle East.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 627 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Ugarit-Verlag, 2010.

Contents:

Pt. 1: The Ancient Near East. Temple building among the Sumerians and Akkadians (third millennium) / Richard E. Averbeck

Temple building in the Old Babylonian Period / Madeleine Fitzgerald

Elamite temple-building / D.T. Potts

Temple building among the Hittites / Gary Beckman

Temple building in northwest Semitic literature of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages / Wayne T. Pitard

Temple building in Assyria : evidence from royal inscriptions / Jamie Novotny

The restoration of temples in the Neo and Late Babylonian Periods : a royal prerogative as the setting for political argument / Hanspeter Schaudig

Palace to temple

king to cosmos : achaemenid foundation texts in Iran / Margaret Cool Root

Temple building in Hellenistic Babylonia / Tom Boiy

Building rituals from the first millennium BC : the evidence from the ritual texts / Claus Ambos

Temple building in the Ancient Near East : a synthesis and reflection / Stephanie Dalley

pt. 2: Hebrew Bible. Temple building and Exodus 25-40 / Pekka Pitkänen

"Solomon built the temple and completed it" : building the first temple according to the Book of Kings / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz

Legitimizing the temple : the chronicler's temple building account / Mark J. Boda

Temple building in Ezra 1-6 / Lisbeth S. Fried

"The wall is no more" : temple reform in Ezekiel 43:7-9 / Margaret S. Odell

Temple building in Haggai : variations on a theme / John Kessler

Temple building and the Book of Zechariah / Antti Laato

Cosmos, temple, house : building and wisdom in ancient Mesopotamia and Israel / Raymond C. Van Leeuwen

Temple building in the Hebrew Bible : a synthesis and reflection / Baruch A. Levine

pt. 3: Response. Temple building in the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible : a response / Richard S. Ellis

pt. 4: Appendices. Appendix 1: Selected Aramaic, Akkadian, Hittite, Phoenician, Persian, Sumerian, and Ugaritic sources

Appendix 2: Catalogue of Elamite sources

Appendix 3: Hebrew Bible passages connected to Ancient Near Eastern (re)construction rituals and texts with select bibliography.

Notes:

Festschrift in honor of Richard Ellis.

"Instead of a standard Festschrift, Richard Ellis has been honored with this collection of studies on temple building. The first part explores the richness of textual evidence in Ancient Near East cultures: among others Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Elamite, Hittite, Achaemenid. The second part is devoted to various passages of the Hebrew Bible dealing with the building of temples: among others the building of the First Temple, the Chronicler's Temple Building Account, temple reform in Ezekiel and the instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 25ff. The volume is supplemented by an extensive collection of short descriptions of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Hebrew texts dealing with temple building and will thus serve as a comprehensive and useful reader"--from distributor's website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [517]-561) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783868350319

3868350314

OCLC:

618338811