The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora: Jewish Practice and Thought During the Second Temple Period

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40927-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 192, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

In The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora, Jonathan Trotter shows how different diaspora Jews’ perspectives on the distant city of Jerusalem and the temple took shape while living in the diaspora, an experience which often is characterized by complicated senses of alienation from and belonging to an ancestral homeland and one’s current home. This book investigates not only the perspectives of the individual diaspora Jews whose writings mention the Jerusalem temple (Letter of Aristeas, Philo of Alexandria, 2 Maccabees, and 3 Maccabees) but also the customs of diaspora Jewish communities linking them to the temple, such as their financial contributions and pilgrimages there.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trotter, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan R. Trotter, Ph.D. (2016), University of Notre Dame, is Lecturer of Theology at Lewis University.