Reconstructing the Temple

The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Andrew R. Davis, Boston College) Davis, Andrew R. (Associate Professor of Old Testament, Associate Professor of Old Testament, DAVIS, Andrew R Davis

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This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past. Davis draws on the royal literature of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE for main evidence of this rhetoric. Furthermore, he argues for reading the story of Jeroboam I's placement of calves at Dan and Bethel (1 Kgs 12:25-33) as an eighth-century BCE account of temple renovation with a similar rhetoric. Concluding with further examples in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Reconstructing the Temple demonstrates that the rhetoric of temple renovation was a distinct and longstanding topic in the ancient Near East.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-08
Mått236 x 157 x 25 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190868963

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Andrew R. Davis is associate professor of Old Testament at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. His first book, which was a revision of the dissertation he wrote at Johns Hopkins University, compared the temple complex at Tel Dan to biblical descriptions of worship in the Northern Kingdom. Davis's other main research interest involves literary approaches to biblical texts, which he has explored in articles on the books of Genesis, Ruth, and Job, and is pursuing in a new project on the book of Amos.

AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1: Introduction to Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Beyond2: Temple Renovation in Neo-Assyrian Records and the Book of KingsEsarhaddon's Reports of Temple RenovationThe Renovation of EsarraThe Renovation of EsagilTemple Renovation and Priests' LettersAccounts of Temple Renovation in 2 KingsJehoash's Renovation (2 Kgs 12:5-17)Ahaz's Renovation (2 Kgs 16:10-18)Josiah's Renovation (2 Kgs 22-23) 13: Persian Temple Renovations and the Rebuilding of the Jerusalem TempleTemple Renovations by Cyrus IIThe New Capital at PasargadaeRestoration of Babylonian TemplesTemple Renovations under Cambyses IITemple Renovations under Darius IThe Renovation of SusaTemple Renovation in the Bisitun InscriptionTemple Renovations in EgyptThe Second Temple in Light of Persian Temple Renovations4: The Renovations of Dan and Bethel 2261 Kings 12:25-33 as a Renovation TextThe Eighth Century BCE as the Background of 1 Kings 12:25-33Joash, Jeroboam II, and the Rhetoric of RenovationComparison to the Panamuwa and Bar-Rakib Inscriptions5: Temple Renovation in Later PeriodsSelected BibliographyIndex