Mark J. Boda and 

From the Foundations 

    AOAT 366
Jamie Novotny (eds.) to the Crenellations    ISBN 978-3-86835-031-9
   xxxviii + 627 pp
Essays on Temple Building       2010
in the Ancient Near East   
and Hebrew Bible    128,- EUR

Instead of a standard Festschrift, Richard Ellis has been honored with this collection of studies on temple building. The first part explores the richness of textual evidence in Ancient Near East cultures: among others Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Elamite, Hittite, Achaemenid. The second part is devoted to various passages of the Hebrew Bible dealing with the building of temples: among others the building of the First Temple, the Chronicler’s Temple Building Account, temple reform in Ezekiel and the instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 25ff. The volume is supplemented by an extensive collection of short descriptions of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Hebrew texts dealing with temple building and will thus serve as a comprehensive and useful reader.

Part One: The Ancient Near East
R.E. Averbeck

Temple Building among the Sumerians and Akkadians (Third Millennium) 

     3
M. Fitzgerald Temple Building in the Old Babylonian Period   35
D.T. Potts Elamite Temple-Building   49

G. Beckman

Temple Building among the Hittites

   71
W.T. Pitard

Temple Building in Northwest Semitic Literature of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages

   91
J.Novotny Temple Building in Assyria: Evidence from Royal Inscriptions 109
H. Schaudig The Restoration of Temples in the Neo- and Late-Babylonian Periods: A Royal Prerogative as the Setting for Political Argument 141
M. Cool Root Palace to Temple—King to Cosmos: Achaemenid Foundation Texts in Iran 165 165

T. Boiy

Temple Building in Hellenistic Babylonia

 211
Cl. Ambos

Building Rituals from the First Millennium BC: The Evidence from the Ritual Texts

 221
St. Dalley

Temple Building in the Ancient Near East: A Synthesis and Reflection

 239
   
Part Two: Hebrew Bible
P. Pitkänen Temple Building and Exodus 25–40 255
V.A. Hurowitz “Solomon Built the Temple and Completed It”: Building the First Temple According to the Book of Kings 281
M.J. Boda Legitimizing the Temple: The Chronicler’s Temple Building Account 303
L.S. Fried

Temple Building in Ezra 1–6

 319
M.S. Odell “The Wall is No More”: Temple Reform in Ezekiel 43:7-9 339
J. Kessler Temple Building in Haggai: Variations on a Theme 357
A. Laato Temple Building and the Book of Zechariah 381
R.C. Van Leeuwen

Cosmos, Temple, House: Building and Wisdom in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

 399
B.A. Levine Temple Building in the Hebrew Bible: A Synthesis and Reflection 423
   
Part Three: Response
R.S. Ellis Temple Building in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible: A Response 439
    

Part Four: Appendices
Appendix 1 Selected Aramaic, Akkadian, Hittite, Phoenician, Persian, Sumerian, and Ugaritic Sources 447
Appendix 2 Catalogue of Elamite Sources 479
Appendix 3 Hebrew Bible Passages Connected to Ancient Near Eastern (Re)Construction Rituals and Texts with Select Bibliography 511
     
Bibliography 517
   
Indices 563
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