John Day is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow & Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He is a renowned scholar, having written or edited ten books and over fifty articles.

"Each essay has been thoroughly researched and many conclude with substantial biographies which help to make this volume a very valuable resource. It represents scholarship at its highest level and between them the contributors have produced a comprehensive study of a central biblcal theme...the interplay between the essays that results from a continuous reading of this volume produces another level of insight into the significance of Temple and worship in the development of Israel's identity and self-understanding. Highly recommended." J.E. Tollington, SOTS Booklist, 2006

• Part 1. Temples and High Places in Israel and the Canaanite World; Like Deities, Like Temples (Like People), Mark S. Smith, New York University; Massebot in the Israelite Cult: An Argument for making Implicit Cultic Criteria Explicit, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Tel Dor excavations; From Gibeon to Gibeah: High Place of the Kingdom, Simcha Shalom Brooks, Freelance scholar working in London; Part 2. Temple and Worship in the Old Testament; YHWH's Exalted House - Aspects of the Design and Symbolism of Solomon's Temple, Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; The Prophets and the Cult, John Barton, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Isaiah 6, H.G.M. Williamson, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Ezekiel 40-48, Paul Joyce, University of Oxford; Divine Reversal and the Role of the Temple in Trito-Isaiah, Jill Middlemas, The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Placing (a) God: Central Place Theory in Deuteronomy 12 and Delphi, Anselm Hagedorn, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin; Merely a Container? The Ark in Deuteronomy, Ian Wilson, Freelance scholar working in Cambridge; Whatever happened to the Ark of the Covenant? John Day,; University of Oxford; Ordeals in the Psalms? Philip Johnston, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Wisdom Psalms, Stuart Weeks, University of Durham; The Zion Tradition and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter, Susan Gillingham, University of Oxford; The Day of Atonement as a Ritual of Validation for the High Priest, Deborah Rooke, King's College, University of London; The Temple of David in the Book of Chronicles, John Jarick, St Stephen's House, Oxford; Part 3. The Temple in the Late Second Temple Period and the New Testament; Understandings of the Temple Service in the Septuagint Pentateuch, C.T.R. Hayward, University of Durham; The Temple in the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Literature of the Second and First Centuries BCE, Michael Knibb, King's College, University of London. The Temple(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls, George Brooke, University of Manchester; New Voices, Ancient Words: The Temple Scroll's Reuse of the Bible, Molly Zahn, University of Notre Dame; The Temple in First Century CE Judaism, Martin Goodman, University of Oxford; The Temple in the New Testament, Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford; The Messianic Man of Peace as Temple Builder: Solomonic Imagery in Ephesians 2. 13-22, Larry Kreitzer, Regent's Park College, Oxford.

John Day is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow & Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He is a renowned scholar, having written or edited ten books and over fifty articles.

"Each essay has been thoroughly researched and many conclude with substantial biographies which help to make this volume a very valuable resource. It represents scholarship at its highest level and between them the contributors have produced a comprehensive study of a central biblcal theme...the interplay between the essays that results from a continuous reading of this volume produces another level of insight into the significance of Temple and worship in the development of Israel's identity and self-understanding. Highly recommended." J.E. Tollington, SOTS Booklist, 2006

• Part 1. Temples and High Places in Israel and the Canaanite World; Like Deities, Like Temples (Like People), Mark S. Smith, New York University; Massebot in the Israelite Cult: An Argument for making Implicit Cultic Criteria Explicit, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Tel Dor excavations; From Gibeon to Gibeah: High Place of the Kingdom, Simcha Shalom Brooks, Freelance scholar working in London; Part 2. Temple and Worship in the Old Testament; YHWH's Exalted House - Aspects of the Design and Symbolism of Solomon's Temple, Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; The Prophets and the Cult, John Barton, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Isaiah 6, H.G.M. Williamson, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Ezekiel 40-48, Paul Joyce, University of Oxford; Divine Reversal and the Role of the Temple in Trito-Isaiah, Jill Middlemas, The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Placing (a) God: Central Place Theory in Deuteronomy 12 and Delphi, Anselm Hagedorn, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin; Merely a Container? The Ark in Deuteronomy, Ian Wilson, Freelance scholar working in Cambridge; Whatever happened to the Ark of the Covenant? John Day,; University of Oxford; Ordeals in the Psalms? Philip Johnston, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Wisdom Psalms, Stuart Weeks, University of Durham; The Zion Tradition and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter, Susan Gillingham, University of Oxford; The Day of Atonement as a Ritual of Validation for the High Priest, Deborah Rooke, King's College, University of London; The Temple of David in the Book of Chronicles, John Jarick, St Stephen's House, Oxford; Part 3. The Temple in the Late Second Temple Period and the New Testament; Understandings of the Temple Service in the Septuagint Pentateuch, C.T.R. Hayward, University of Durham; The Temple in the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Literature of the Second and First Centuries BCE, Michael Knibb, King's College, University of London. The Temple(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls, George Brooke, University of Manchester; New Voices, Ancient Words: The Temple Scroll's Reuse of the Bible, Molly Zahn, University of Notre Dame; The Temple in First Century CE Judaism, Martin Goodman, University of Oxford; The Temple in the New Testament, Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford; The Messianic Man of Peace as Temple Builder: Solomonic Imagery in Ephesians 2. 13-22, Larry Kreitzer, Regent's Park College, Oxford.

John Day is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow & Tutor of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He is a renowned scholar, having written or edited ten books and over fifty articles.

"Each essay has been thoroughly researched and many conclude with substantial biographies which help to make this volume a very valuable resource. It represents scholarship at its highest level and between them the contributors have produced a comprehensive study of a central biblcal theme...the interplay between the essays that results from a continuous reading of this volume produces another level of insight into the significance of Temple and worship in the development of Israel's identity and self-understanding. Highly recommended." J.E. Tollington, SOTS Booklist, 2006

• Part 1. Temples and High Places in Israel and the Canaanite World; Like Deities, Like Temples (Like People), Mark S. Smith, New York University; Massebot in the Israelite Cult: An Argument for making Implicit Cultic Criteria Explicit, Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Tel Dor excavations; From Gibeon to Gibeah: High Place of the Kingdom, Simcha Shalom Brooks, Freelance scholar working in London; Part 2. Temple and Worship in the Old Testament; YHWH's Exalted House - Aspects of the Design and Symbolism of Solomon's Temple, Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; The Prophets and the Cult, John Barton, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Isaiah 6, H.G.M. Williamson, University of Oxford; Temple and Worship in Ezekiel 40-48, Paul Joyce, University of Oxford; Divine Reversal and the Role of the Temple in Trito-Isaiah, Jill Middlemas, The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Placing (a) God: Central Place Theory in Deuteronomy 12 and Delphi, Anselm Hagedorn, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin; Merely a Container? The Ark in Deuteronomy, Ian Wilson, Freelance scholar working in Cambridge; Whatever happened to the Ark of the Covenant? John Day,; University of Oxford; Ordeals in the Psalms? Philip Johnston, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford Wisdom Psalms, Stuart Weeks, University of Durham; The Zion Tradition and the Editing of the Hebrew Psalter, Susan Gillingham, University of Oxford; The Day of Atonement as a Ritual of Validation for the High Priest, Deborah Rooke, King's College, University of London; The Temple of David in the Book of Chronicles, John Jarick, St Stephen's House, Oxford; Part 3. The Temple in the Late Second Temple Period and the New Testament; Understandings of the Temple Service in the Septuagint Pentateuch, C.T.R. Hayward, University of Durham; The Temple in the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Literature of the Second and First Centuries BCE, Michael Knibb, King's College, University of London. The Temple(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls, George Brooke, University of Manchester; New Voices, Ancient Words: The Temple Scroll's Reuse of the Bible, Molly Zahn, University of Notre Dame; The Temple in First Century CE Judaism, Martin Goodman, University of Oxford; The Temple in the New Testament, Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford; The Messianic Man of Peace as Temple Builder: Solomonic Imagery in Ephesians 2. 13-22, Larry Kreitzer, Regent's Park College, Oxford.