Cult and cosmos
Subtitle: tilting toward a temple-centered theology
By: edited by L. Michael Morales
Series: Biblical tools and studies -- volume 18; Biblical tools and studies -- v. 18.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9789042930254
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Kult; Tempel; Criticism, interpretation; Tempelbau; Cosmology; Semitic cults; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem); Skapelse; Bible; Zikkurat; Kosmologie; Symbolism; Bibeln; Schöpfung; Biblia Hebraica; Sacred space; Liturgie
Description: The association between creation and the temple is a key element of the cultural context of the Hebrew Bible, and foundational for understanding its cultic theology. Situated within the common cultic ideology of the ancient Near East, Israel's temple on the mountain of God was considered the central axis and naval of creation, its architecture, furnishings, and rituals pervaded by cosmogonic symbolism. Having emerged out of the twentieth century's predisposed disdain for priestly material, the theological prominence of the temple within the Hebrew Bible is increasingly recognized by scholars. This volume, republishing pivotal scholarship on the interface of cult and cosmos, forms a primer on this significant area of study, tracing major voices in the conversation, from archaeological and ancient Near Eastern studies to biblical studies and the theological prospect of Israel's cults.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cult and cosmos: William F. Albright (1942): The place of the Temple of Solomon in the history of Israelite religion; title: Eric Burrows (1935): Some cosmological patterns in Babylonian religion; title: John M. Lundquist (1984): The common temple ideology of the ancient Near East; title: Ronald E. Clements (1965); title: Sacred mountains, temples and the presence of God; title: Richard J. Clifford (1984): The Temple and the Holy Mountain; title: Lawrence E. Stager (1999): Jerusalem and the Garden of Eden; title: Cult, cosmos, and biblical history: Peter J. Kearney (1977): Creation and liturgy: the P redaction of Ex 25-40; title: Walter Vogels (1997): The cultic and civil calendars of the Fourth Day of Creation; title: Moshe Weinfeld (1981): Sabbath, temple and the enthronement of the Lord: the problem of the Sitz im Leben of Genesis 1:1-2:3; title: Gordon J. Wenham (1986): Sanctuary symbolism in the Garden of Eden story; title: Joaquim Azevedo (1999): At the door of Paradise: a contextual interpretation of Gen. 4:7; title: Steven W. Holloway (1991): What ship goes there? The Flood narratives in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis considered in the light of ancient Near Eastern temple ideology; title: Joseph Blenkinsopp (1976): The structure of P; title: Jon D. Levenson (1994): Cosmos and microcosm; title: Robert Luyster (1981): Wind and water: cosmogonic symbolism in the Old Testament; title: Herbert G. May (1955): Some Cosmic connotations of Mayim Rabbîm, "Man Waters"; title: Bernard F. Batto (1983): The Reed Sea: Requiescat in Pace; title: P. Kyle McCarter (1973): The river ordeal in Israelite literature; title: Cult, cosmos, and biblical theology: Mircea Eliade (1957): Sacred space and making the world sacred; title: Terence E. Fretheim (1991): The reclamation of creation: redemption and law in Exodus; title: Bernard Och (1995): Creation and redemption: towards a theology of creation; title: Frank H. Gorman, Jr. (1993): Priestly rituals of founding: time, space, and status; title: Gary A. Anderson (1988): The cosmic mountain: Eden and its early interpreters in Syriac Christianity; title: Michael Fishbane (1975): The sacred center: the symbolic structure of the Bible.