Visualising the Vision

A Study of the Plan of Ezekiel's Temple
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-54631-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 83, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old Testament Studies

In Visualizing the Vision, the author presents a detailed analysis of Ezekiel’s temple vision from an architectural, linguistic, and historical approach. The study demonstrates that the vision was not meant as a building instruction, but as a sign of hope for the exiles in Babylon, showing the temple as it will be built in a distant future, when it will never again be defiled and the Glory of the Lord will return to His house forever. The author takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the description of the vision’s temple and provides architectural drawings of its possible construction, situating these within the larger framework of Ancient Near Eastern building styles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stijkel, Konstantin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures, Table, and Maps

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1 Scope of the Study

2 State of the Art

3 Thesis and Research Questions

4 Outline of the Study

5 On Method

6 Structure of the Book of Ezekiel

7 Structure of Ezekiel 40–48

8 Conclusions

2 The Vision Report

A Text Critical and Philological Exploration

1 The Character of the Final Vision

2 The Text of the Vision Report

3 Studying the Text of the Vision Report

4 A Text Critical and Philological Exploration

5 Conclusions

3 On Imagination

1 The Character of Biblical Visions

2 Concepts of Imagination in Western History

3 Imagination

4 Symbolism and Concepts of Sacred Space in the Ancient Near East and Israel

5 Imitating and Depicting Biblical Examples of Sacred Space

6 Imitating and Depicting the New Jerusalem

7 Conclusions

4 Temple Building in the Ancient Near East: A Historical and Architectural Overview

1 Introduction

2 Temple Ideology

3 Description of Ancient Near Eastern Temples

4 Egyptian Temples

5 Mesopotamian Temples

6 Canaanite Temples

7 Conclusions

5 Israelite Sanctuaries

Plan and Arrangement of Israelite Sanctuaries from the Tabernacle to Herod’s Temple

1 Introduction

2 Tabernacle

3 Israelite Precursors of the Temple in Jerusalem

4 Solomon’s Temple

5 The Elephantine Temple

6 Zerubbabel’s Temple

7 Post-exilic Building Activities on the Temple Mount

8 Herod’s Temple Complex

9 The Temple in the Dead Sea Scrolls

10 Description of the New Jerusalem

11 Conclusions

6 Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple

Its Plan and Arrangement

1 Introduction

2 “I Will Put My Sanctuary among Them for Ever” (Ezek 37:26b)

3 The Design and Architecture of the Temple Compound with Its Structures

4 The Design and Architecture of the Temple Platform with Its Structures

5 The Design and Architecture of the Temple Proper

6 Ezekiel’s Temple Compared to Its Predecessors

7 Conclusions

7 Ezekiel’s Temple as the Ultimate Imagination

1 Ezekiel’s Temple Vision Account a Rhetorical Masterpiece

2 Temple Ideology and Conceptualisation

3 A New Image Paradigm

4 Some Iconic Concepts from the Field of Spatial Design

5 The Formation of a Spatial Plan

6 The Future Temple

7 Some Theological Considerations on the Shape of Ezekiel’s Temple

8 Reflections on the Nature of Ezekiel’s Temple

9 Conclusions

Architectural and Technical Terms

Bibliography

Index of Biblical References

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Names and Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Konstantin Stijkel, Ph.D. (2021), Protestant Theological University, is a retired town planner and nowadays a researcher of Old Testament. He has published two articles on Ezekiel in Dutch magazines (ACEBT cahier 26; Schrift 286).