The Pillars of the First Temple (1 Kgs 7,15-22): a study from Ancient Near Eastern, biblical, archaeological, and iconographic perspectives
Cover -- Titel -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1. The State of Research -- 1.2. Aim and Method -- 1.3. Overview of Study -- Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Descriptions -- 2.1. Egyptian Texts -- 2.2. Mesopotamian Written Records -- 2.2.1. Pill...
| Résumé: | Cover -- Titel -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1. The State of Research -- 1.2. Aim and Method -- 1.3. Overview of Study -- Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Descriptions -- 2.1. Egyptian Texts -- 2.2. Mesopotamian Written Records -- 2.2.1. Pillars from Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta -- 2.2.2. Inventory from Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta -- 2.2.3. Neo-Assyrian Written Sources -- 2.3. North-West Semitic Texts -- 2.4. Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Comparison of Biblical Sources -- 3.1. The Pillars in the Accounts about Construction and Furnishing of the Temple -- 3.1.1. 1 Kgs 7,15-22 and 2 Chr 3,15-17 -- 3.1.2. Summaries in 1 Kgs 7,41-42 and 2 Chr 4,12-13 -- 3.1.3. Different Sources Behind the Biblical Descriptions of the Pillars -- 3.1.4. Conclusions -- 3.2. The Pillars in the Accounts about Destruction and Looting of the Temple -- 3.2.1. Jer 52,21-23 and 2 Kgs 25,17 -- 3.2.2. 1 Kgs 7,15-22 as a Source Text for 2 Kgs 25,17 and Jer 52,21-23 -- 3.2.3. Conclusions -- 3.3. Preexilic or Postexilic Descriptions? -- Chapter 4: Textual and Literary Criticism -- 4.1. Textual Criticism -- 4.1.1. 1 Kgs 7,15 -- 4.1.2. 1 Kgs 7,16 -- 4.1.3. 1 Kgs 7,17 -- 4.1.4. 1 Kgs 7,18 -- 4.1.5. 1 Kgs 7,19.22 -- 4.1.6. 1 Kgs 7,20 -- 4.1.7. 1 Kgs 7,21 -- 4.2. Literary Questions -- 4.2.1. The Outline of the Greek and Hebrew Descriptions -- 4.2.2. How Many Columns Are We Dealing with? -- 4.2.3. Signs of Reworking -- 4.3. Conclusions -- 4.4. Synthesis -- Chapter 5: Symbolic Meaning of the Twin Pillars -- 5.1. Material, Dimensions and Names of the Pillars -- 5.1.1. Bronze -- 5.1.2. Measurements of the Pillars -- 5.1.3. Symbolic Meaning of the Material and Dimensions of the Pillars -- 5.1.4. Symbolic Meaning of the Names -- 5.1.4.1. Names in the OG Vorlage -- 5.1.4.2. Names in the MT -- 5.1.5. Conclusions -- 5.2. Placement of the Pillars. |
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| ISBN: | 3161594525 |