Reconstructing the Temple
The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel
This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in therhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-086896-3
- EAN: 9780190868963
- Produktnummer: 29899040
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H16.5 cm x B24.2 cm x D2.7 cm 484 g
- Gewicht: 484
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Andrew R. Davis is associate professor of Old Testament at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. His first book, which was a revision of the dissertation he wrote at Johns Hopkins University, compared the temple complex at Tel Dan to biblical descriptions of worship in the Northern Kingdom. Davis's other main research interest involves literary approaches to biblical texts, which he has explored in articles on the books of Genesis,Ruth, and Job, and is pursuing in a new project on the book of Amos.
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