Heaven and temple in the Second Temple period: A taxonomy
It is a commonplace of ancient Near Eastern worldviews that temples have cosmic significance. This understanding persists and develops in the Second Temple period, with numerous texts witnessing to a widely held belief that the Jerusalem temple reflected heaven or the universe. Scholars have largely...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage
2023
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Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Année: 2023, Volume: 33, Numéro: 1, Pages: 75-93 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Judaïsme
/ Religion
/ Israël (Nom géographique)
/ Temple
/ kosmos
/ Ciel
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Sciences des religions BH Judaïsme HB Ancien Testament |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Cultus
B Tabernacle B Apocalypse B Jerusalem Temple B Cosmology B Cosmos |
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| Résumé: | It is a commonplace of ancient Near Eastern worldviews that temples have cosmic significance. This understanding persists and develops in the Second Temple period, with numerous texts witnessing to a widely held belief that the Jerusalem temple reflected heaven or the universe. Scholars have largely been content either to recognize a basic relationship, or to distinguish temple-in-heaven from temple-as-universe, sometimes construing the former as “apocalyptic” and the latter as “Hellenistic.” Jonathan Klawans’ work represents an important articulation of this distinction. This article summarizes his contribution, and critiques it on the grounds that it remains overly dichotomous and does not do full justice to the evidence. Instead, a fresh taxonomy is proposed with four key categories, each illustrated from Second Temple and biblical texts. None of these categories is discrete; rather they demarcate a spectrum or scale of ways that ancient Jewish and early Christian writers conceptualized the heaven–temple relationship. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5286 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/09518207211052237 |