Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation

Pieter B. Hartog, Ph.D. (2015), KU Leuven, teaches ancient Judaism and New Testament at the Protestant Theological University in Groningen. He is author of Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison between Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period (Brill, 2017) and co-editor of The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities: Method, Theory, Meaning (Brill, 2018).Shulamit Laderman, Ph.D. (2000), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a lecturer in Jewish and General Art at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. She has published extensively on Jewish and Christian mutual influences on visual illustration of the Bible.Vered Tohar, Ph.D. (2005), Bar-Ilan University, is senior lecturer in the Department of the Literature of the Jewish People at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of Abraham in the Furnace: A Rebel in a Pagan World (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2010); The Book of Tales, Sermons and Legends (Ferrara 1554): An Anthology of Hebrew Stories from the Print Era (Hakibbutz HaMeuchad, 2016). She is a co-editor of Tell me About It: Aspects in Narrative Analysis (Ben-Gurion University Press, 2010); Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception (Brill, 2016).Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen, Ph.D. (1993), KU Nijmegen, is professor of Old Testament at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology. He has published especially on prophetic literature and biblical theology. He is the co-editor of ‘Enlarge the Site of Your Tent’: The City as Unifying Theme in Isaiah: The Isaiah Workshop: De Jesaja Werkplaats (Brill, 2011) and of The Apostles’ Creed: ‘He Descended Into Hell’ (Brill, 2018).

• List of Figures and TablesIntroductionPieter B. Hartog, Shulamit Laderman, Vered Tohar, and Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen1 Graves as Holy Places? The Development of Jewish and National Sacred Space in the State of Israel, 1948–1967Doron Bar2 Rabbinic Literature’s Hidden Polemic: Sacred Space in the World of the SagesEyal Ben-Eliyahu3 Inner Sanctum: Digital Labyrinths as Postmodern Pilgrimages: the Cases of the Talos Principle and the Turing TestFrank G. Bosman4 The Dome and the Rock Where Adam, Moses, and Jesus MeetKatia Cytryn-Silverman5 Synagogues as Foci of Multi-Religious and Ideological Confrontation? The Case of the Sardis SynagogueSteven Fine6 Psalm 47 as a Song of Zion: Nationalistic and Universalistic TendenciesDavid Frankel7 Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Identity, Sacred Space, and Universal Knowledge in Philostratus and Acts of the ApostlesPieter B. Hartog8 “Holy Mokum”—a Case Study: the Dynamics of Sacred Place at Kastanjeplein, Amsterdam on National Remembrance DayWillem Jan de Hek9 The Garden in Eden: a Holy Place?Robin B. ten Hoopen10 Rituals of Holy Places in the 11th Century: the Circling of the Gates of Jerusalem and Pilgrimage to the Cave of MachpelahTamar Kadari and Gila Vachman11 Church History and Archaeology on Holy Places in the NetherlandsGert van Klinken12 Seeing Jerusalem through Selected Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Collective Memory’s VisualizationsShulamit Laderman13 From Church to Synagogue: the Bankras Church (Amstelveen, the Netherlands) as a Case from the ResponsaLeon Mock14 The “Inn of the Good Samaritan”: Religious, Civic and Political Rhetoric of a Biblical SiteEric Ottenheijm15 A Sense of Place and the Jewish Temple: from the Book of Psalms to the Temple ScrollEyal Regev16 Remnants of Jewish Holiness in the Al Aksa Mosque in the Hague: Emotions, Rules, and “Iconic Fields”Lieve M. Teugels17 Sacred Stones: Literary and Folkloric Representations of the Remains of the Holy TempleVered Tohar18 Jerusalem as an Aposiopesis in Old and New Testament TextsArchibald L.H.M. van WieringenIndex of Ancient SourcesIndex of Modern Authors