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The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah brings together an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging international community of scholars to discuss aspects of the history and continued life of the Jerusalem Temple in Western culture, from biblical times to the present.
|This volume is the fruit of the inaugural conference of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, which convened in New York City on May 11-12, 2008 and honors Professor Louis H. Feldman, Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University. Feldman is the doyen of modern scholarship on Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, focusing on the writings of Flavius Josephus. A beloved mentor to generations of Yeshiva University students and of scholars across the globe, Professor Feldman has taught at YU since 1955.
Table of Contents||Words of Celebration|Richard M. Joel, Yeshiva University |1. The Inauguration of the Tabernacle Service at Sinai|Gary A. Anderson, University of Notre Dame |2. God as Refuge and Temple as Refuge in the Psalms|Shalom Holtz, Yeshiva University |3. “See, I Have Called by the Renowned Name of Bezalel, Son of Uri…”:|Josephus on the Biblical “Architect.”|Steven Fine, Yeshiva University|4. The Temple Scroll: A Utopian Temple Plan from Second Temple Times|Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University|5. From Toleration to Destruction: Roman Policy and the Jewish Temple|Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev, Ben Gurion University |6. Notes on the Virtual Reconstruction of the Herodian Period Temple and Courtyards|Joshua Schwartz and Yehoshua Peleg, Bar Ilan University|7. Envisioning the Sanctuaries of Israel —The Academic and Creative Process of Archaeological Model Making|Leen Ritmeyer, Trinity Southwest University |8. Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction: The Temple in Pesiqta Rabbati|Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University |9. The Mosaic Tabernacle as the Only Legitimate Sanctuary: The Biblical Tabernacle in Samaritanism|Reinhardt Pummer, University of Ottawa |10. Why Is There No Zoroastrian Central Temple?: A Thought Experiment|Yaakov Elman, Yeshiva University|11. Rival Claims: Christians, Muslims and the Jerusalem Holy Places|Frank E. Peters, New York University |12. Imagining the Temple in Late Medieval Spanish Altarpieces|Vivian B. Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary of America|13. Images of the Temple in Sefer ha-Bahir|Jonathan Dauber, Yeshiva University|14. Interpreting “the Resting of the Shekhinah”: Exegetical Implications of the Theological Debate among Maimonides, Nahmanides and Sefer ha-Hinnukh|Mordechai Z. Cohen, Yeshiva University|15. Remembering the Temple: Commemoration and Catastrophe in Ashkenazi Culture|Jacob J. Schacter, Yeshiva University |16. The Temple of Jerusalem from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment|Matt Goldish, Ohio State University|17. “Jerusalem Rebuilt”: The Temple in the Fin-de-siècle Zionist Imagination|Jess Olson, Yeshiva University|18. Avi Yonah’s Model of Second Temple Jerusalem and the Development of Israeli Visual Culture|Maya Balakirsky Katz, Touro College|19. Jerusalem during the First and Second Temple Periods: Recent Excavations and Discoveries On and Near the Temple Mount|Ann Killebrew, Pennsylvania State University|20. Digging the Temple Mount: Archaeology and the Arab-Israeli Conflict from the British Mandate to the Present|Robert O. Freedman, Johns Hopkins University .