[PDF] Land And Temple eBook

Author : Benjamin D. Gordon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 311042102X

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This exploration of the Judean priesthood’s role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE–70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible’s assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple.

Author : Michael F. Bird
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801045639

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What was the extent and nature of Jewish proselytizing activity amongst non-Jews in Palestine and the Greco-Roman diaspora leading up to and during the beginnings of the Christian era? Was there a clear missional direction? How did Second-Temple Judaism recruit converts and gain sympathizers? This book strives to address these questions, representing an update of the discussion while also breaking new ground. A "source book" of key texts is provided at the end.

Author : Benjamin D. Gordon
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110425468

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Cults and temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner but managing the land themselves and affording it sanctity protections. Arrangements of the sort can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible's assertion that the Land of Israel is "God's land." They can also shed light on the poorly understood references in biblical and early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the Judean priesthood or Jerusalem temple. Such properties could result from endowments earmarked for priestly clans, pledges in exchange for loans issued from the holy treasuries, and crimes of fraud meant to impede foreclosure by a creditor. These are but some of the ways in which priests of the Second Temple period (516 BCE-70 CE) were involved in the everyday affairs of Jewish agriculturalists. In Egypt too the Oniad temple at Leontopolis appears to have commanded over a sacred portion of land. This aspect of the early Jewish cult's institutional reach far beyond the confines of its sanctuaries underscores its similarity to the religious organizations of the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly the great theocratic "temple states" of the East. Touching on the fields of religion, archaeology, economics, and history, this first book-length treatment of the subject calls for a new understanding of the priesthood and temple in early Judaism.

Author : Russell H. Conwell
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Baptists
ISBN :

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Russell H. Conwell Founder Of Temple University Philadelphia.

Author : Don Bradley
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589587601

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On a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture, and ripping apart mattresses as he desperately looked for a stack of papers he had sworn to God to protect. Those pages containing the only copy of the first three months of the Joseph Smith's translation of the golden plates were forever lost, and the detailed stories they held forgotten over the ensuing years--until now. In this highly anticipated work, author Don Bradley presents over a decade of historical and scriptural research to not only tell the story of the lost pages but to reconstruct many of the detailed stories written on them. Questions explored and answered include: Was the lost manuscript actually 116 pages? How did Mormon's abridgment of this period differ from the accounts in Nephi's small plates? Where did the brass plates and Laban's sword come from? How did Lehi's family and their descendants live the Law of Moses without the temple and Aaronic priesthood? How did the Liahona operate? Why is Joseph of Egypt emphasized so much in the Book of Mormon? How were the first Nephites similar to the very last? What message did God write on the temple wall for Aminadi to translate? How did the Jaredite interpreters come into the hands of the Nephite kings? Why was King Benjamin so beloved by his people? Despite the likely demise of those pages to the sands of time, the answers to these questions and many more are now available for the first time in nearly two centuries in The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories.

Author : Robert K. G. Temple
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Science
ISBN :

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Overzicht van de Chinese uitvindingen waar het Westen pas eeuwen later mee in aanraking kwam.

Author : Jodi Magness
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521124131

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An introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine, from the destruction of Solomon's temple to the Muslim conquest.

Author : Menahem Haran
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575060033

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Professor Menahem Haran is honored in this volume by a chorus of colleagues, disciples, and friends from Israel, Europe, North America, and the Far East. The diversity of Haran's expertise is reflected in the table of contents of this collection, organized around the topics: "Priests and Their Sphere," "The Torah," "The Prophets," "The Writings," and "Language and Writing.

Author : Michael Steinberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1105703703

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The land of temples is South India, the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. It's been called the last surviving classical civilization, a land where there is room for temples large and small and time for rituals passed down for millennia. In four brief essays and two dozen evocative black-and-white photographs scholar and devotee Michael Steinberg takes readers into the inner sanctuaries of ancient temples and out again into the teeming streets of contemporary Chennai. A big book in a little package, his deeply personal story also sheds light on the enduring importance of a way of life that has its roots in the dawn of civilization itself.