The Temple in early Christianity : experiencing the sacred / Eyal Regev.

By:

Regev, Eyal [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Anchor Yale Bible reference libraryDescription: xiii, 480 pages ; 25 cmISBN:

9780300197884
0300197888

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

221.95 23

LOC classification:

BS2545.T45 R44 2019

Contents:

Jesus: "Cleansing," trial, and Last Supper -- Paul's letters: Temple imagery as religious identity -- Mark: criticism or rejection? -- Q and Matthew: the Sacred Temple -- Luke-Acts: living and dying with the Temple -- The Gospel of John: Temple and Christology -- The Book of Revelation: the alternative Temple -- Hebrews: the new heavenly temple cult based on the old one -- Relating to Judaism, experiencing the sacred -- Concluding thoughts.

Summary: "The first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their respective faiths and how they grow out of this ancient institution. The centrality of the Temple in New Testament writing reveals the authors' negotiations with the institutional and symbolic center of Judaism as they worked to form their own religion." -- Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-449) and indexes.

"The first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their respective faiths and how they grow out of this ancient institution. The centrality of the Temple in New Testament writing reveals the authors' negotiations with the institutional and symbolic center of Judaism as they worked to form their own religion." -- Publisher description.