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Purity Sacrifice and the Temple by Jonathan Klawans, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jonathan Klawans

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Purity Sacrifice and the Temple by Jonathan Klawans, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Purity Sacrifice and the Temple by Jonathan Klawans, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Jonathan Klawans

Purity Sacrifice and the Temple by Jonathan Klawans, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others see these cultic rituals as merely the fossilized vestiges of primitive superstition. Some believe that ancient Jewish sacrifice was doomed fromthe start, destined to be replaced by the Christian eucharist. Others think that the temple was fated to be superseded by the synagogue. In Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that these supersessionist ideologies have prevented scholars from recognizing the Jerusalemtemple as a powerful source of meaning and symbolism to the ancient Jews who worshiped there. Klawans exposes and counters such ideologies by reviewing the theoretical literature on sacrifice and taking a fresh look at a broad range of evidence concerning ancient Jewish attitudes toward the temple and its sacrificial cult. The first step toward reaching a more balanced view is to integratethe study of sacrifice with the study of purity - a ritual structure that has commonly been understood as symbolic by scholars and laypeople alike. The second step is to rehabilitate sacrificial metaphors, with the understanding that these metaphors are windows into the ways sacrifice was understoodby ancient Jews. By taking these steps - and by removing contemporary religious and cultural biases - Klawans allows us to better understand what sacrifice meant to the early communities who practiced it. Armed with this new understanding, Klawans reevaluates the ideas about the temple articulatedin a wide array of ancient sources, including Josephus, Philo, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic literature. Klawans mines these sources with an eye toward illuminating the symbolic meanings of sacrifice for ancient Jews. Along the way, he reconsiders the ostensiblerejection of the cult by the biblical prophets, the Qumran sect, and Jesus. While these figures may have seen the temple in their time as tainted or even defiled, Klawans argues, they too-like practically all ancient Jews-believed in the cult, accepted its symbolic significance, and hoped for itsultimate efficacy. | Purity Sacrifice and the Temple by Jonathan Klawans, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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