Description: Reconstructing the Temple : The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel, Hardcover by Davis, Andrew R., ISBN 0190868961, ISBN-13 9780190868963, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of
the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to
correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past.
Davis draws on the royal literature of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE for main evidence of this rhetoric. Furthermore, he argues for reading the story of Jeroboam Is placement of calves at Dan and Bethel (1 Kgs 12:25-33) as an eighth-century BCE account of temple renovation with a similar
rhetoric. Concluding with further examples in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Reconstructing the Temple demonstrates that the rhetoric of temple renovation was a distinct and longstanding topic in the ancient Near East.
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Book Title: Reconstructing the Temple : The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovati
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Reconstructing the Temple : The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient near East and Israel
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: General, History / Ancient & Classical, Rhetoric, History / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Item Length: 6.2 in
Author: Andrew R. Davis
Subject Area: Architecture, Language Arts & Disciplines, Bibles
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
