Hebrews and the Temple

Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33950-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 171, 646 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1020 g

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Church, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Church, Ph.D. (2012), Otago University, is a Senior Research Fellow at Laidlaw College, Auckland, NZ. He has published articles in several edited books and in academic journals, including the Westminster Theological Journal and the Tyndale Bulletin.