Land And Temple

Author : Benjamin D. Gordon
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110425467

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Land and Temple by Benjamin D. Gordon Pdf

Cults and temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner but managing the land themselves and affording it sanctity protections. Arrangements of the sort can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible's assertion that the Land of Israel is "God's land." They can also shed light on the poorly understood references in biblical and early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the Judean priesthood or Jerusalem temple. Such properties could result from endowments earmarked for priestly clans, pledges in exchange for loans issued from the holy treasuries, and crimes of fraud meant to impede foreclosure by a creditor. These are but some of the ways in which priests of the Second Temple period (516 BCE-70 CE) were involved in the everyday affairs of Jewish agriculturalists. In Egypt too the Oniad temple at Leontopolis appears to have commanded over a sacred portion of land. This aspect of the early Jewish cult's institutional reach far beyond the confines of its sanctuaries underscores its similarity to the religious organizations of the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly the great theocratic "temple states" of the East. Touching on the fields of religion, archaeology, economics, and history, this first book-length treatment of the subject calls for a new understanding of the priesthood and temple in early Judaism.

Author : Michael F. Bird
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801045630

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Crossing Over Sea and Land by Michael F. Bird Pdf

What was the extent and nature of Jewish proselytizing activity amongst non-Jews in Palestine and the Greco-Roman diaspora leading up to and during the beginnings of the Christian era? Was there a clear missional direction? How did Second-Temple Judaism recruit converts and gain sympathizers? This book strives to address these questions, representing an update of the discussion while also breaking new ground. A "source book" of key texts is provided at the end.

Author : Troy D. Cudworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567666512

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War in Chronicles by Troy D. Cudworth Pdf

Taking on the established view of Chronicles, which uses retribution theology - the view that the author of Chronicles re-worked the texts in Samuel-Kings to demonstrate that Yahweh rewards the good and punishes the wicked - Troy Cudworth argues that this cause-effect relationship is maintained primarily through the treatment of the themes of war and temple-faithfulness. Cudworth identifies a division of kings into categories, with the immediate exception of David, who belongs in his own category as he pioneered the two most foundational elements of the temple cult. For this reason, he also won many battles to secure Israel's place in the land. The next two groups of kings can be dichotomised in the following way: those who show faithfulness to the temple cult and its practices, and those who neglect it. Based on their attitude to the temple, the Chronicler illustrates how the kings either prosper in the land through military victory or suffer attack. Although many kings begin as faithful in supporting orthodox temple practices, and thus prosper on the battlefield, none of these kings are consistent and persevere in their faithfulness and so their success either stops immediately, or they suffer attack. Conversely, other kings are illustrated who, despite committing some of the worst sins in Israel's history, repent immediately after their swift punishment. Across all of these cases, it is shown how temple faithfulness always ultimately guarantees peace and security for Israel.

Author : Pennell Joseph
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318041082

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In the Land of Temples by Pennell Joseph Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : D.J. Stuart-Fox
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004487567

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Pura Besakih by D.J. Stuart-Fox Pdf

Pura Besakih is the paramount Hindu temple on Bali. Located high on the slopes of the volcano Mt Agung, it has developed over more than a thousand years into a great complex of 22 separate temples, the largest and central being Pura Penataran Agung. The annual cycle of more than seventy rituals, which symbolically link the temples into a whole, culminates in the centenary ceremony called Ekadasa Rudra (last held in 1979). The temple complex, state-supported at least since the fifteenth century, has undergone a series of architectural and ritual changes. This study combines an analysis of textual and historical sources with the fieldwork methods of anthropology in creating a unified interpretation of this great temple.

Author : Land
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600039410

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The Land of Temples. (India.). by Land Pdf

Author : Adam Gregerman
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 316154322X

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Building on the Ruins of the Temple by Adam Gregerman Pdf

In the immediate centuries after the Romans' destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 CE, Jews and Christians offered contrasting religious explanations for the razing of the locus of God's presence on earth. Adam Gregerman analyzes the views found in three early Christian texts (Justin's Dialogue with Trypho, Origen's Contra Celsum, and Eusebius' Proof of the Gospel) and one rabbinic text (the Midrash on Lamentations), all of which emerged in the same place--the land of Israel--and around the same time--the first few centuries after 70. The author explores the ways they interpret the destruction in order to prove (in the case of Christians), or make it impossible to disprove (in the case of the Jews) that their community is the people of God. He demonstrates the apologetic and polemical functions of selected explanations, for claims to the covenant made by one community excluded those made by the other.

Author : Paul Sauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Christian sects
ISBN : 0959748938

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The Holy Land Called by Paul Sauer Pdf

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : 9781105703706

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In the land of temples: Notes from a South Indian pilgrimage by Michael Steinberg Pdf

The land of temples is South India, the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. It's been called the last surviving classical civilization, a land where there is room for temples large and small and time for rituals passed down for millennia. In four brief essays and two dozen evocative black-and-white photographs scholar and devotee Michael Steinberg takes readers into the inner sanctuaries of ancient temples and out again into the teeming streets of contemporary Chennai. A big book in a little package, his deeply personal story also sheds light on the enduring importance of a way of life that has its roots in the dawn of civilization itself.

Author : Menahem Haran
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1575060035

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מקדש, מקרא ומנורה by Menahem Haran Pdf

Professor Menahem Haran is honored in this volume by a chorus of colleagues, disciples, and friends from Israel, Europe, North America, and the Far East. The diversity of Haran's expertise is reflected in the table of contents of this collection, organized around the topics: "Priests and Their Sphere," "The Torah," "The Prophets," "The Writings," and "Language and Writing.

Author : Joel Weinberg
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567588265

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The Citizen-Temple Community by Joel Weinberg Pdf

Often working under severely restricted academic and social conditions, the Latvian scholar Joel Weinberg has made a unique and important contribution to biblical studies. Influenced by Soviet work in ancient Near Eastern history, Weinberg's distinctive approach is in dialogue with scholarship in both Eastern and Western European traditions. This translation brings together seven essays originally published in Russian, then translated and expanded by Weinberg into German. The essays form the basis of what was originally Weinberg's dissertation. Publication of these essays in English will not only allow students and scholars easier access to Weinberg's thought, but will allow scholars to evaluate the studies together, and thus facilitate the current dialogue on the Babylonian exile, and the postexilic period.

Author : Boston (Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112044125299

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Document by Boston (Mass.) Pdf

Author : Don Bradley
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 158958760X

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The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories by Don Bradley Pdf

On a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture, and ripping apart mattresses as he desperately looked for a stack of papers he had sworn to God to protect. Those pages containing the only copy of the first three months of the Joseph Smith's translation of the golden plates were forever lost, and the detailed stories they held forgotten over the ensuing years--until now. In this highly anticipated work, author Don Bradley presents over a decade of historical and scriptural research to not only tell the story of the lost pages but to reconstruct many of the detailed stories written on them. Questions explored and answered include: Was the lost manuscript actually 116 pages? How did Mormon's abridgment of this period differ from the accounts in Nephi's small plates? Where did the brass plates and Laban's sword come from? How did Lehi's family and their descendants live the Law of Moses without the temple and Aaronic priesthood? How did the Liahona operate? Why is Joseph of Egypt emphasized so much in the Book of Mormon? How were the first Nephites similar to the very last? What message did God write on the temple wall for Aminadi to translate? How did the Jaredite interpreters come into the hands of the Nephite kings? Why was King Benjamin so beloved by his people? Despite the likely demise of those pages to the sands of time, the answers to these questions and many more are now available for the first time in nearly two centuries in The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories.

Author : Richard G. Wang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684176540

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Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks by Richard G. Wang Pdf

Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks—biological lineages, territorial communities, temples, and festivals—and the state. They did this through their organization in clerical lineages—their own empire-wide networks for channeling knowledge, patronage, and resources—and by controlling central temples that were nodes of local social structures. In this book, the only comprehensive social history of local Daoism during the Ming largely based on literary sources and fieldwork, Richard G. Wang delineates the interface between local organizations (such as lineages and temple networks) and central state institutions. The first part provides the framework for viewing Daoism as a social institution in regard to both its religious lineages and its service to the state in the bureaucratic apparatus to implement state orthodoxy. The second part follows four cases to reveal the connections between clerical lineages and local networks. Wang illustrates how Daoism claimed a universal ideology and civilizing force that mediated between local organizations and central state institutions, which in turn brought meaning and legitimacy to both local society and the state.

Author : Mahesh Sharma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047430377

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Western Himalayan Temple Records by Mahesh Sharma Pdf

Fifty-five documents in a western-Himalayan language dealing with land, pilgrimage, legality and temple-economy are presented. They explicate how ‘lesser states’ patronized numerous shrines and the role of Nath-Siddha-ascetics in creating consent-to-rule, and constructing hybridity between the Hindu and Tibetan-Buddhist traditions.