JESUS AND TEMPLE

TEXTUAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS

JAMES H. CHARLESWORTH, EDITOR

Fortress Press

Minneapolis

JESUS AND TEMPLE

Textual and Archaeological Explorations

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Print ISBN: 978-1-4514-8036-8

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Dedicated to

Michal and Doron Mendels

Wilbur and Frances Freedman

Emile Puech

Ada Yardeni

Richard Bauckham

James Davila

and

John Painter

CONTENTS

Contributors

Preface: Herod the Great, Hillel, Jesus, and Their Temple

Introduction: Devotion to and Worship in Jerusalem’s Temple

James H. Charlesworth

1. Imagining the Temple Known to Jesus and to Early Jews

Leen Ritmeyer

2. The Second Temple in Jerusalem

Dan Bahat

3. The Importance of the Temple for Ancient Jews

Lawrence H. Schiffman

4. The Psalms as Hymns in the Temple of Jerusalem

Gary A. Rendsburg

5. Reverence for Jerusalem and the Temple in Galilean Society

Mordechai Aviam

6. Jesus and the Temple

James H. Charlesworth

7. The Temple and Jesus’ Followers

James H. Charlesworth

8. The Temple and Jesus the High Priest in the New Testament

Harold W. Attridge

9. An Unperceived Early Jewish-Christian Temple Source

George T. Zervos

Selected Bibliography

Brady Alan Beard

Index of Biblical and Ancient Literature References

Contributors

Harold W. Attridge, Sterling Professor of Divinity at Yale Divinity School, is the author of numerous books on Hellenistic Judaism, including Hebrews (Hermeneia).

Mordecai Aviam, Director of the Institute for Galilean Archaeology at Kinneret Academic College, Israel, is the former District Archaeologist of the Western Galilee for the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Dan Bahat, associate professor, faculty of theology, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, was previously District Archaeologist of Jerusalem in the Israel Department of Antiquities. He is the author of Carta’s Atlas of Jerusalem (1980) and The Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem (1990).

James H. Charlesworth, George L. Collard Professor of New Testament Languages and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, is the Chief Editor of the Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project and the author of numerous articles and books.

Gary Rendsburg, Blanche and Irving Laurie Professsor of Jewish History, Rutgers University, is the author of numerous books and articles including, as co-author with Cyrus Gordon, The Bible and the Ancient Near East (1990).

Leen Ritmeyer, archaeologist, architect, and founder of Ritmeyer Archaeological Design, is chief architect on a number of projects, including the Herodian Villas ...