The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)

✍ Scribed by Eyal Regev

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 497
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive treatment of the early Christian approaches to the Temple and its role in shaping Jewish and Christian identity

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Editions and Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Jesus: “Cleansing,” Trial, and Last Supper
Chapter 2. Paul’s Letters: Temple Imagery as Religious Identity
Chapter 3. Mark: Criticism or Rejection?
Chapter 4. Q and Matthew: The Sacred Temple
Chapter 5. Luke–Acts: Living and Dying with the Temple
Chapter 6. The Gospel of John: Temple and Christology
Chapter 7. The Book of Revelation: The Alternative Temple
Chapter 8. Hebrews: The New Heavenly Temple Cult Based on the Old One
Chapter 9. Relating to Judaism, Experiencing the Sacred
Chapter 10. Concluding Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
W
Y
Z
Index of Ancient Sources