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

By Philip Church

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2017
ISBN
9004339507, 9789004339507
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2499575 bytes)
Series
Supplements to Novum Testamentum 171
Pages
xviii+616\635
Topic
Religion
Time added
2018-04-08 04:34:47
New Testament;Criticism & Interpretation;Bible StuPractices & Sacred Texts;Religious Art;Religious S

Description

In Hebrews and the Temple Philip Church argues that the silence of Hebrews concerning the temple does not mean that the author is not interested in the temple. He writes to encourage his readers to abandon their preoccupation with it and to follow Jesus to their eschatological goal. Following extensive discussions of attitudes to the temple in the literature of Second Temple Judaism, Church turns to Hebrews and argues that the temple is presented there as a symbolic foreshadowing of the eschatological dwelling of God with his people. Now that the eschatological moment has arrived with the exaltation of Christ to the right hand of God, preoccupation with the temple and its rituals must cease.

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