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Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism

Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism

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Series: Studia Judaica, Book 87

Judaism

ISBN10: 3110425467
ISBN13: 9783110425468
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Apr 6 2020
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This exploration of the Judean priesthood's role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE-70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible's assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple.

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