Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism (2005 Klawans), book

Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism (2005) is a book by Jonathan Klawans.

Editions and translations

Published in New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. Reprinted several times in Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006-2009.

Table of contents

• Introduction: Purity, Sacrifice, and Evolutionist Analysis
• Part I. Purity and Sacrifice in Biblical Israel
  • 1. Sacrifice and Purity: The Twisted Fortunes of Related Ritual Structures
  • 2. The Sacrificial Process of Ancient Israel
  • 3. Rethinking the Prophetic Critique
• Part II. The Second Temple, Symbolism, and Supersessionism
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 4. Temple as Cosmos or Temple in the Cosmos: Priests, Purity, Sacrifice, and Angels
  • 5. Sinful People, Impure Priests, and Inadequate Structures: The Temple as Defiled and Rejected
  • 6. The Purity of the Second Temple in Rabbinic Literature
  • 7. The Last Supper, the Temple Incident, and the "Spiritualization" of Sacrifice in the New Testament
• Conclusion

External links

• Google Books (partial text)