Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel

ISBN-13: 9780190868963 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Andrew R. Davis

Recenzje

Reconstructing the Temple by Andrew Davis shows how accounts of temple renovation drew on memories of the past to serve royal purposes, asserting continuity with the past as well as the new achievements of royal renovators. Drawing on extensive textual and archaeological evidence, the result is a fresh, brilliant understanding of temple renovation as a form of royal historiography. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Jerusalem Temple or in ancient literature about temples more broadly.

O autorze

Andrew R. Davis is associate professor of Old Testament at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. His first book, which was a revision of the dissertation he wrote at Johns Hopkins University, compared the temple complex at Tel Dan to biblical descriptions of worship in the Northern Kingdom. Davis's other main research interest involves literary approaches to biblical texts, which he has explored in articles on the books of Genesis, Ruth, and Job, and is pursuing in a new project on the book of Amos.