Architecture and Utopia in the Temple Era

by Michael Chyutin, Lester L. Grabbe (Editor)

Overview

This book proposes a new reconstruction of the Temple, which differs from conventional descriptions in Jewish literary sources during the First and Second Temple eras.





Individual descriptions of the Temple are examined independently and the influence of earlier descriptions on subsequent ones is considered. Detailed architectural diagrams and three-dimensional models accompany the different reconstructions of the temple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567030542
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/15/2005
Series:	The Library of Second Temple Studies , #58
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it?

Table of Contents

Introduction


Chapter 1 - The Meeting-Tent Tabernacle Temple
Chapter 2 - From Tent to Tent and Tabernacle
Chapter 3 - The First Temple in Jerusalem


Chapter 4 - The Temple of the Temple Scroll


Chapter 5 - The Second Temple
Chapter 6 - The Utopian State and the Ideal City


Chapter 7 - Jewish Design Thinking in the First and Second Temple Periods




Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Architecture and Utopia - Theory and Practice





Appendix A: Number Mysticism in the Ancient World and in the Scriptures


Appendix B: A Modular and Arithmetological Analysis of the Temples