The Temple of Jerusalem : from Moses to the Messiah : in honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman / edited by Steven Fine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fine, Steven.

Feldman, Louis H.

Center for Israel Studies (Yeshiva University)

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 29.

Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)--Congresses.

Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiv, 405 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Contents:

Preface / Steven Fine

Words of celebration / Richard M. Joel

Inauguration of the tabernacle service at Sinai / Gary A. Anderson

God as refuge and temple as refuge in the Psalms / Shalom E. Holtz

"See, I have called by the renowned name of Bezalel, son of Uri..." : Josephus' portrayal of the biblical "architect" / Steven Fine

The temple scroll : a utopian temple plan for second temple times / Lawrence H. Schiffman

From toleration to destruction : Roman policy and the Jewish temple / Miriam Ben Zeev

Notes on the virtual reconstruction of the Herodian period temple and courtyards / Joshua schwartz and Yehoshua Peleg

Envisioning the sanctuaries of Israel : the academic and creative process of archaeological model making / Leen Ritmeyer

Construction, destruction, and reconstruction : the temple in Pesiqta Rabbati

The mosiac tabernacle as the only legitimate sanctuary : the biblical tabernacle in samaritanism / Reinhard Pummer

Why is there no Zoroastrian central temple? : a thought experiment / Yaakov Elman

Rival claims : Christians, Muslims, and the Jerusalem holy places / Frank E. Peters

Imagining the temple in Late Medieval Spanish altarpieces / Vivian B. Mann

Images of the temple in Sefer ha-Bahir / Jonathan V. Dauber

Interpreting "The Resting of the Shekhinah" : exegetical implications of the theological debate among Maimonides, Nahmanides, and Sefer ha-Hinnukh / Mordechai Z. Cohen

Remembering the temple : commemoration and catastrophe in Ashkenazi culture / Jacob J. Schacter

Some trends in temple studies from the renaissance to the Enlightenment / Matt Goldish

"Jerusalem rebuilt" : the temple in the fin-de-siècle Zionist imagination / Jess Olson

Avi Yonah's model of second temple jerusalem and the development of Israeli visual culture / Maya Balakirsky Katz

Jerusalem during the first and second temple periods : recent excavations and discoveries on and near the temple mount / Ann E. Killebrew

Digging the temple mount : archaeology and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the British mandate to the present / Robert O. Freedman.

Notes:

"This volume is the product of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies which took place on May 11-12, 2008"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9004192530

9789004192539

OCLC:

674938233

Publisher Number:

99944667862