ISBN:
9783110421026
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 287 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Studia Judaica 87
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Land tenure Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Sacred space Social aspects
;
RELIGION / Judaism / History
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Field Consecrations in Leviticus 27 -- Chapter 3: The Sacred Reserve of Yahweh in Ezekiel’s Temple Vision -- Chapter 4: Hellenistic Rulers, Jewish Temples, and Sacred Land -- Chapter 5: Field Consecrations in the Late Second Temple Period -- Chapter 6: Herem Property and Landholding by Priests in the Late Second Temple Period -- Chapter 7: An Allusion to a Sacred Tree in Paul’s Letter to the Romans -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Subjects
Abstract:
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
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110421026
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