The Temple of Jerusalem from Moses to the Messiah : in honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman / [electronic resource] :
edited by Steven Fine.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 405 p.) : ill.
- Brill reference library of Judaism, v. 29 1571-5000 ; .
- Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 29. .
"This volume is the product of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies which took place on May 11-12, 2008"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Words of celebration / Inauguration of the tabernacle service at Sinai / God as refuge and temple as refuge in the Psalms / "See, I have called by the renowned name of Bezalel, son of Uri..." : Josephus' portrayal of the biblical "architect" / The temple scroll : a utopian temple plan for second temple times / From toleration to destruction : Roman policy and the Jewish temple / Notes on the virtual reconstruction of the Herodian period temple and courtyards / Envisioning the sanctuaries of Israel : the academic and creative process of archaeological model making / Construction, destruction, and reconstruction : the temple in Pesiqta Rabbati -- The mosiac tabernacle as the only legitimate sanctuary : the biblical tabernacle in samaritanism / Why is there no Zoroastrian central temple? : a thought experiment / Rival claims : Christians, Muslims, and the Jerusalem holy places / Imagining the temple in Late Medieval Spanish altarpieces / Images of the temple in Sefer ha-Bahir / Interpreting "The Resting of the Shekhinah" : exegetical implications of the theological debate among Maimonides, Nahmanides, and Sefer ha-Hinnukh / Remembering the temple : commemoration and catastrophe in Ashkenazi culture / Some trends in temple studies from the renaissance to the Enlightenment / "Jerusalem rebuilt" : the temple in the fin-de-siècle Zionist imagination / Avi Yonah's model of second temple jerusalem and the development of Israeli visual culture / Jerusalem during the first and second temple periods : recent excavations and discoveries on and near the temple mount / Digging the temple mount : archaeology and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the British mandate to the present / Steven Fine -- Richard M. Joel -- Gary A. Anderson -- Shalom E. Holtz -- Steven Fine -- Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Miriam Ben Zeev -- Joshua schwartz and Yehoshua Peleg -- Leen Ritmeyer -- Reinhard Pummer -- Yaakov Elman -- Frank E. Peters -- Vivian B. Mann -- Jonathan V. Dauber -- Mordechai Z. Cohen -- Jacob J. Schacter -- Matt Goldish -- Jess Olson -- Maya Balakirsky Katz -- Ann E. Killebrew -- Robert O. Freedman.