Philip Church. Hebrews and the Temple: Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 171. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 615 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-424
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
The Temple

scholarly journals The Unique Sacrifice of Christ According to Hebrews 9: A Study in Theological Creativity

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Christian A. Eberhart ◽  
Donald Schweitzer
Keyword(s):  
Early Christianity ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
High Priest ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Temple

The letter to the Hebrews develops a distinct christological and soteriological concept of Jesus as both high priest and unique sacrifice once and for all. In doing so, Hebrews remains largely faithful to cult traditions of Second Temple Judaism. Especially the concept of Jesus as sacrifice is, however, theologically creative and innovative. The present essay explores these dynamic developments and discusses how they led early Christianity to ultimately abandon the temple cult.

scholarly journals The Tradition of the 364-Day Calendar versus the Calendar Polemic in Second Temple Judaism

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Jarosław Klukowski
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Qumran Community

The article presents the major hypotheses concerning the emergence of the 364-day calendar within Judaism and the related calendrical controversy, which presumably caused the separation of a certain group of Jews, known to us as the Qumran Community, from the temple cult in Jerusalem. It is not known whether the 364-day calendar tradition is older than that of the Astronomical Book, or whether the adoption of this tradition was accompanied by conflicts. The Qumran texts do not provide unequivocal evidence for any calendrical polemics. The only witness to these polemics is The Book of Jubilees, copies of which were found in the Qumran library. However, the Qumran Community itself did not share the radical line of The Book of Jubilees, which condemns reliance on the moon in time-keeping. The 364-day calendar is presumed to have been a distinctive feature of the Qumran Community, which however did not arouse any controversies within Second Temple Judaism.

Going Through Hell; ΤΑΡΤΑΡΟΣ in Greco-Roman Culture, Second Temple Judaism, and Philo of Alexandria

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-378
Author(s):  
Clint Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
Second Temple Period ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Greek Myths

This article questions the longstanding supposition that the eschatology of the Second Temple period was solely influenced by Persian or Iranian eschatology, arguing instead that the literature of this period reflects awareness of several key Greco-Roman mythological concepts. In particular, the concepts of Tartarus and the Greek myths of Titans and Giants underlie much of the treatment of eschatology in the Jewish literature of the period. A thorough treatment of Tartarus and related concepts in literary and non-literary sources from ancient Greek and Greco-Roman culture provides a backdrop for a discussion of these themes in the Second Temple period and especially in the writings of Philo of Alexandria.

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