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Ausgabe:

Juni/2018

Spalte:

617–619

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Church, Philip

Titel/Untertitel:

Hebrews and the Temple. Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2017. XVIII, 615 S. = Novum Testamentum. Supplements, 171. Geb. EUR 156,00. ISBN 978-90-04-33950-7.

Rezensent:

Georg Gäbel

Crispin Fletcher-Louis recently claimed that »[t]he notion that Jews in the Second Temple period believed in a heavenly temple up there as a model for the one down here is […] a modern scholarly myth«. This might have served as a motto for the book under review by Philip Church (Laidlaw College, Auckland, New Zealand). Its two parts deal with attitudes to the temple in Second Temple Jewish Literature and with »temple symbolism« in Hebrews. What holds the two parts together is interest in the ways heavenly and earthly sanctuaries are described in temporal and/or spatial, eschatological and/or cosmological categories.
Part 1 is organized in four chapters, »Temple Affirmed«, »Temple Contested«, »Temple Rejected«, and »Temple Destroyed.« C. con-cedes that the Book of ...


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