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Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity / edited by A. Houtman, M.J.H.M. Poorthuis, J. Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Houtman, Alberdina | Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955- | Schwartz, Joshua
Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish and Christian perspectives series: v. 1.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998Description: x, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004112332 (alk. paper); 9789004112339 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Jewish shrines -- Palestine | Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) | Christian shrines -- Palestine | Sacred space | Time -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- History of doctrines | Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines | Rabbinical literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 296.4/8 LOC classification: BM655 | .S26 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, & Joshua Schwartz -- Torah from Zion: Isaiah's Temple vision (Isaiah 2:1-4) / Baruch J. Schwartz -- Transformations of space and time: Nathan's oracles and David's prayer in 1 Chronicles 17 / Pancratius C. Beentjes -- Holy place and Hannah's prayer: a comparison of LAB 50-51 and Luke 2:22-39 à propos 1 Samuel 1-2 / Bart J. Koet -- The lasting sanctity of Bethesda / Martien Parmentier -- Ir Ha-Miqdash and its meaning in the Temple Scroll and other Qumran texts / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Holiness and mysticism at Sinai according to the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael / Lieve Teugels -- Jerusalem and theTemple in the Tannaitic literature of the first generation after the destruction of the Temple / Shmuel Safrai -- 'They direct their hearts to Jerusalem': references to Jerusalem and Temple in Mishnah and Tosefta Berakhot / Alberdina Houtman -- 'To stand -- perhaps to sit': sitting and standing in the azarah in the Second Temple period / Joshua Schwartz -- The institutionalization of the cult of saints in Christian society / Ze'ev Safrai -- Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem: Jerome and the holy places of Palestine / Hillel Isaac Newman -- Moses' rod in Zipporah's garden / Marcel Poorthuis -- Liturgical time and space in early Christianity in ight of their jewish background / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Holy city and holy land as viewed by Jews and Christians in the Byzantine period: a conceptual approach to sacred sense / Aaron Demsky -- Post modern pilgrimage: Christian ritual between liturgy and 'topolatry' / Paul Post -- The sanctity of Mount Herzl and Independence Day in Israel's civil religion / Ophir Yarden -- A Rachel for everyone: the Kinneret Cemetery as a site of civil pilgrimage / Aamos Ron.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, & Joshua Schwartz -- Torah from Zion: Isaiah's Temple vision (Isaiah 2:1-4) / Baruch J. Schwartz -- Transformations of space and time: Nathan's oracles and David's prayer in 1 Chronicles 17 / Pancratius C. Beentjes -- Holy place and Hannah's prayer: a comparison of LAB 50-51 and Luke 2:22-39 à propos 1 Samuel 1-2 / Bart J. Koet -- The lasting sanctity of Bethesda / Martien Parmentier -- Ir Ha-Miqdash and its meaning in the Temple Scroll and other Qumran texts / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Holiness and mysticism at Sinai according to the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael / Lieve Teugels -- Jerusalem and theTemple in the Tannaitic literature of the first generation after the destruction of the Temple / Shmuel Safrai -- 'They direct their hearts to Jerusalem': references to Jerusalem and Temple in Mishnah and Tosefta Berakhot / Alberdina Houtman -- 'To stand -- perhaps to sit': sitting and standing in the azarah in the Second Temple period / Joshua Schwartz -- The institutionalization of the cult of saints in Christian society / Ze'ev Safrai -- Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem: Jerome and the holy places of Palestine / Hillel Isaac Newman -- Moses' rod in Zipporah's garden / Marcel Poorthuis -- Liturgical time and space in early Christianity in ight of their jewish background / Gerard Rouwhorst -- Holy city and holy land as viewed by Jews and Christians in the Byzantine period: a conceptual approach to sacred sense / Aaron Demsky -- Post modern pilgrimage: Christian ritual between liturgy and 'topolatry' / Paul Post -- The sanctity of Mount Herzl and Independence Day in Israel's civil religion / Ophir Yarden -- A Rachel for everyone: the Kinneret Cemetery as a site of civil pilgrimage / Aamos Ron.

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