Contextualizing Jewish Temples

Tova Ganzel, PhD (2005), Bar-Ilan University Israel, is Senior Lecturer at the Multidisciplinary Department of Jewish Studies at the University. She has published numerous articles on prophetic literature, including a monograph in Hebrew and recently in English: Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration.Shalom E. Holtz, PhD (2006), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Bible at Yeshiva University. He has published numerous articles and studies of cuneiform legal texts and their connections to biblical law. His most recent book is Praying Legally (Brown Judaic Studies, 2019).

• List of Abbreviations1 IntroductionTova Ganzel and Shalom E. Holtz2 The Sacred Bureaucracy of Neo-Babylonian TemplesYuval Levavi3 Priestly Courses and the Administration of Time in Neo-Babylonian TemplesCaroline Waerzeggers4 The Priestly Sabbath and the Calendar: between Literature and Material CultureJeffrey Stackert5 Between the House of the Father and the House of the Lord: Privacy and Purity in the Israelite Dwelling and the Israelite TempleAvraham Faust6 Literary Artistry and Divine PresenceGary A. Anderson7 Yahweh Become a Temple? MT Ezekiel 11:16 מִקְדָּ֣שׁ מְעַ֔ט RevisitedSimeon Chavel8 On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Heavenly and Earthly Temple in Ezekiel 40–48Paul M. Joyce9 The Temple Scroll and Mishnah Middot: a Literary ComparisonLawrence H. Schiffman10 Why Did the Early Christians Care about the Temple after 70 CE? The Case of the Gospel of MatthewEyal Regev11 Divine Presence in the Absence of the TempleRisa LevittBibliographyIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Subjects