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Introduction to the Theme: The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2019

Hayim Lapin  and
Marjorie Lehman
Hayim Lapin*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
Marjorie Lehman
Affiliation:
The Jewish Theological Seminary
*
hlapin@umd.edu
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The following group of essays emerged out of a seminar held at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in 2015. As section heads of Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity and Rabbinic Literature and Culture, tasked to think about how to address gaps in our fields, we recognized that despite a large amount of scholarship available on the Jerusalem Temple and its priesthood, there was a dearth of cross-disciplinary scholarly exchange, especially between ancient Jewish historians and those of us who engage in literary analysis of rabbinic sources. As a result, our divisions joined together to create “The Jerusalem Temple in History, Memory, and Ritual,” taking advantage of the “seminar” format at the conference. Twelve scholars, each working with different source material and employing different methodological approaches, participated.

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AJS Review , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , November 2019 , pp. 265 - 269
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 2019 

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1. We would like to thank the participants in the seminar, including Joan Branham, Matthew Grey, Oded Irshai, Adele Reinhartz, Daniel Schwartz, and Nathan Schumer, as well as our respondents, Chaya Halberstam, Jane Kanarek, and Seth Schwartz. Each of us who submitted articles here benefitted greatly from the discussions that ensued during our seminars at the AJS. We also thank Vivian Mann, who was an instrumental participant in our seminar and who took ill before she could revise her article for publication. She passed away on May 6, 2019. We will miss her attendance at the AJS and are grateful for her extraordinary contribution to the field of Jewish studies.

2. Eliav, Yaron, “The Temple Mount, the Rabbis and the Poetics of Memory,” Hebrew Union College Annual 74 (2003): 50Google Scholar, where he discusses Nora, Pierre, ed., Les lieux de memoire, 3 vols. (Paris: Gallimard, 1984), 1:xxxixGoogle Scholar; Nora, , Realms of Memory, trans. Kritzman, Lawrence D., 3 vols. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 1:18Google Scholar.

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5. The revelation of plans for a future Temple occurs already in Ezekiel 40–48.

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