From the foundations to the crenellations
Subtitle: essays on temple building in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible
By: edited by Mark J. Boda and Jamie Novotny
Series: Alter Orient und Altes Testament -- Bd. 366; Alter Orient und Altes Testament -- Bd. 366.
Publisher: Ugarit-Verlag; Ugarit Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 627
ISBN-13: 9783868350319
Subjects: Bible; Temples; Antiquities; Design and construction; History of Biblical events; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Description: "Instead of a standard Festschrift, Richard Ellis has been honored with this collection of studies on temple building. The first part explores the richness of textual evidence in Ancient Near East cultures: among others Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Elamite, Hittite, Achaemenid. The second part is devoted to various passages of the Hebrew Bible dealing with the building of temples: among others the building of the First Temple, the Chronicler's Temple Building Account, temple reform in Ezekiel and the instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 25ff. The volume is supplemented by an extensive collection of short descriptions of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Hebrew texts dealing with temple building and will thus serve as a comprehensive and useful reader"--from distributor's website.
Notes: Festschrift in honor of Richard Ellis.

"Instead of a standard Festschrift, Richard Ellis has been honored with this collection of studies on temple building. The first part explores the richness of textual evidence in Ancient Near East cultures: among others Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Elamite, Hittite, Achaemenid. The second part is devoted to various passages of the Hebrew Bible dealing with the building of temples: among others the building of the First Temple, the Chronicler's Temple Building Account, temple reform in Ezekiel and the instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 25ff. The volume is supplemented by an extensive collection of short descriptions of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Hebrew texts dealing with temple building and will thus serve as a comprehensive and useful reader"--from distributor's website.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-561) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1:; title: The Ancient Near East.; title: Temple building among the Sumerians and Akkadians (third millennium)   -- Richard E. Averbeck; title: Temple building in the Old Babylonian Period  -- Madeleine Fitzgerald; title: Elamite temple-building  -- D.T. Potts; title: Temple building among the Hittites  -- Gary Beckman; title: Temple building in northwest Semitic literature of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages  -- Wayne T. Pitard; title: Temple building in Assyria : evidence from royal inscriptions  -- Jamie Novotny; title: The restoration of temples in the Neo and Late Babylonian Periods : a royal prerogative as the setting for political argument  -- Hanspeter Schaudig; title: Palace to temple-- king to cosmos : achaemenid foundation texts in Iran  -- Margaret Cool Root; title: Temple building in Hellenistic Babylonia  -- Tom Boiy; title: Building rituals from the first millennium BC :  the evidence from the ritual texts  -- Claus Ambos; title: Temple building in the Ancient Near East : a synthesis and reflection -- Stephanie Dalley; title: pt. 2:; title: Hebrew Bible.; title: Temple building and Exodus 25-40  -- Pekka Pitkänen; title: "Solomon built the temple and completed it" : building the first temple according to the Book of Kings  -- Victor Avigdor Hurowitz; title: Legitimizing the temple : the chronicler's temple building account  -- Mark J. Boda; title: Temple building in Ezra 1-6  -- Lisbeth S. Fried; title: "The wall is no more" : temple reform in Ezekiel 43:7-9  -- Margaret S. Odell; title: Temple building in Haggai : variations on a theme  -- John Kessler; title: Temple building and the Book of Zechariah  -- Antti Laato; title: Cosmos, temple, house : building and wisdom in ancient Mesopotamia and Israel  -- Raymond C. Van Leeuwen; title: Temple building in the Hebrew Bible : a synthesis and reflection  -- Baruch A. Levine -- pt. 3: Response.; title: Temple building in the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible : a response  -- Richard S. Ellis -- pt. 4: Appendices. -- Appendix 1:; title: Selected Aramaic, Akkadian, Hittite, Phoenician, Persian, Sumerian, and Ugaritic sources -- -- Appendix 2:; title: Catalogue of Elamite sources -- -- Appendix 3:; title: Hebrew Bible passages connected to Ancient Near Eastern (re)construction rituals and texts with select bibliography.