How Not to Build a Temple: Jacob, David, and the Unbuilt Ideal in Ancient Judaism
Jacob and David share one distinction in early Jewish literature: both wish to build temples, but are denied by direct divine revelation—David in Chronicles, and Jacob in Jubilees. Considering these figures together through the motif of a denied sanctuary illuminates how early Jews conceptualized th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2015, Volume: 46, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 512-546 |
| Further subjects: | B
Jacob
David
Jubilees
Temple Scroll
Chronicles
temple
heavenly temple
worship
Persian period
Hellenistic period
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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