Reconstructing the Temple
The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 October 2019
- ISBN 9780190868963
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 157x236x25 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English 2
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
very perceptive and innovative study
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction to Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Beyond
Temple Renovation in Neo-Assyrian Records and the Book of Kings
Esarhaddon's Reports of Temple Renovation
The Renovation of Esarra
The Renovation of Esagil
Temple Renovation and Priests' Letters
Accounts of Temple Renovation in 2 Kings
Jehoash's Renovation (2 Kgs 12:5-17)
Ahaz's Renovation (2 Kgs 16:10-18)
Josiah's Renovation (2 Kgs 22-23) 1
Persian Temple Renovations and the Rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple
Temple Renovations by Cyrus II
The New Capital at Pasargadae
Restoration of Babylonian Temples
Temple Renovations under Cambyses II
Temple Renovations under Darius I
The Renovation of Susa
Temple Renovation in the Bisitun Inscription
Temple Renovations in Egypt
The Second Temple in Light of Persian Temple Renovations
The Renovations of Dan and Bethel 226
1 Kings 12:25-33 as a Renovation Text
The Eighth Century BCE as the Background of 1 Kings 12:25-33
Joash, Jeroboam II, and the Rhetoric of Renovation
Comparison to the Panamuwa and Bar-Rakib Inscriptions
Temple Renovation in Later Periods
Selected Bibliography
Index
