Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient JudaismOxford University Press, 10 nov. 2005 - 384 pagini Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others see these cultic rituals as merely the fossilized vestiges of primitive superstition. Some believe that ancient Jewish sacrifice was doomed from the start, destined to be replaced by the Christian eucharist. Others think that the temple was fated to be superseded by the synagogue. In Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that these supersessionist ideologies have prevented scholars from recognizing the Jerusalem temple as a powerful source of meaning and symbolism to the ancient Jews who worshiped there. Klawans exposes and counters such ideologies by reviewing the theoretical literature on sacrifice and taking a fresh look at a broad range of evidence concerning ancient Jewish attitudes toward the temple and its sacrificial cult. The first step toward reaching a more balanced view is to integrate the study of sacrifice with the study of purity-a ritual structure that has commonly been understood as symbolic by scholars and laypeople alike. The second step is to rehabilitate sacrificial metaphors, with the understanding that these metaphors are windows into the ways sacrifice was understood by ancient Jews. By taking these steps-and by removing contemporary religious and cultural biases-Klawans allows us to better understand what sacrifice meant to the early communities who practiced it. Armed with this new understanding, Klawans reevaluates the ideas about the temple articulated in a wide array of ancient sources, including Josephus, Philo, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic literature. Klawans mines these sources with an eye toward illuminating the symbolic meanings of sacrifice for ancient Jews. Along the way, he reconsiders the ostensible rejection of the cult by the biblical prophets, the Qumran sect, and Jesus. While these figures may have seen the temple in their time as tainted or even defiled, Klawans argues, they too-like practically all ancient Jews-believed in the cult, accepted its symbolic significance, and hoped for its ultimate efficacy. |
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... practices to ancient Jewish symbolic or ''spiritualized'' understandings of sacrifice, culmi- nating in the nonsacrificial practices of contemporary Christianity and Judaism. When texts concerning ancient Judaism's sacrificial cult are ...
... practices to ancient Jewish symbolic or ''spiritualized'' understandings of sacrifice, culmi- nating in the nonsacrificial practices of contemporary Christianity and Judaism. When texts concerning ancient Judaism's sacrificial cult are ...
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... practice . Needless to say , there is little evidence for the claim that sacrifice originated in efforts to respond ... practiced . But the frequency with which such assertions are made ( as we will see below ) reflects a third ...
... practice . Needless to say , there is little evidence for the claim that sacrifice originated in efforts to respond ... practiced . But the frequency with which such assertions are made ( as we will see below ) reflects a third ...
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... practiced throughout the Roman Empire until the fourth and fifth centuries of the Common Era . Then , as Christian ... practice of prayer . But Sallustius's defense of sacrifice — with its biting critique of prayer — ought to help us ...
... practiced throughout the Roman Empire until the fourth and fifth centuries of the Common Era . Then , as Christian ... practice of prayer . But Sallustius's defense of sacrifice — with its biting critique of prayer — ought to help us ...
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... practice of sacrifice or its meaning , although there are indeed a number of reasons why the prophets took a particular interest in the sacrificial practices of their contemporaries . In part II , we will bring the analysis of part 1 to ...
... practice of sacrifice or its meaning , although there are indeed a number of reasons why the prophets took a particular interest in the sacrificial practices of their contemporaries . In part II , we will bring the analysis of part 1 to ...
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... practices. As we will see, these two ideas continue and develop the understandings of purity and sacrifice to be traced ... practice, and its personnel. After carefully schematizing the various antitemple polemics, we will consider the ...
... practices. As we will see, these two ideas continue and develop the understandings of purity and sacrifice to be traced ... practice, and its personnel. After carefully schematizing the various antitemple polemics, we will consider the ...
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The Second Temple Symbolism and Supersessionism | 101 |
Conclusion | 247 |
Notes | 255 |
Abbreviations of Journals and Series | 321 |
Bibliography | 323 |
Index of Scripture and Ancient Texts | 351 |
General Index | 363 |
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