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