3 Wisdom of Ben Sira: Timelessness in Support of the Temple-State

2014 ◽  
pp. 52-87
Keyword(s):  
Ben Sira ◽  
The Temple

Marduk’s Basket and the Heavenly Treasury: Comparing Charity in the Dialogue of Pessimism and Sirach

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-184
Author(s):  
Andrew Geist
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Ben Sira ◽  
External Evidence ◽  
The Temple

Abstract The article treats the value of economic generosity (usātu) in the Babylonian Dialogue of Pessimism and compares it to almsgiving in the biblical book of Sirach. It attempts to resolve a longstanding obscurity: whether usātu is placed in Marduk’s “ring” (kippatu) or “basket” (qappatu). External evidence suggests that, while both readings have support and a similar theological significance, the reading “basket” (qappatu) is preferable and should be related to the temple quppu, “cash box,” used for collecting donations. The article then addresses the relevance of mortality to the Dialogue’s discussion of doing usātu. Appeal to other Akkadian wisdom literature suggests that doing usātu was connected with a reward of extra life. An analysis of the theological structure of usātu in the Dialogue and Akkadian wisdom literature leads to a comparison with the theology of almsgiving and the heavenly treasury in Ben Sira and other Second Temple Jewish literature.

Past Continuous: The Yerushalmi’s Account of Honi’s Long Sleep and Its Roots in Second Temple Era Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-431
Author(s):  
Moshe Simon-Shoshan
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
High Priest ◽  
Rabbinic Judaism ◽  
Ben Sira ◽  
Long Sleep ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple

Abstract The Palestinian version of the seventy-year sleep of Honi Hamʿagel in y. Taʿanit 3:9 (66d), is an example of a rabbinic narrative deeply rooted in the culture of pre-rabbinic Judaism. Its authors were familiar with three distinct literary-historical traditions found in earlier texts: the depiction of Simon the high priest in Ben Sira; the account of Nehemiah hiding and restoring the fire of the temple altar in 2 Maccabees; and the story of Abimelech’s decades-long nap preserved in 4 Baruch and The History of the Babylonian Captivity. These three traditions were already connected to each other as part of a wider network of texts, traditions, and collective memory about the Babylonian exile and the return to Zion. The creators of the Honi story built on and extended this body of cultural materials, creating an original work about the continuity of Jewish life and tradition from the biblical era to their own.

MEMAHAMI RELIEF-RELIEF PADA CANDI-CANDI KERAJAAN-KERAJAAN KEDIRI, SINGASARI DAN MAJAPAHIT DI JAWA TIMUR

Jurnal SCALE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Sri Pare Eni
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Culture Technology

Architecture of the ancient kingdoms of Kediri, Singasari and Majapahit, have the same  religion that is Hindu and Buddhist shrines, which requires either a temple. Each temple has a good difference in the environment, culture technology, function, and form of the building.The method of the description will be used here to be able to give you an idea of the temple reliefs in details.Each temple has a different relief and can be found on the head / body / foot which tells about the life story or series, or legend of a moral message containing the story.

Death in the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Violent Death ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Intimate Friend ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
European Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

Popular culture has long conflated Mexico with the macabre. Some persuasive intellectuals argue that Mexicans have a special relationship with death, formed in the crucible of their hybrid Aztec-European heritage. Death is their intimate friend; death is mocked and accepted with irony and fatalistic abandon. The commonplace nature of death desensitizes Mexicans to suffering. Death, simply put, defines Mexico. There must have been historical actors who looked away from human misery, but to essentialize a diverse group of people as possessing a unique death cult delights those who want to see the exotic in Mexico or distinguish that society from its peers. Examining tragic and untimely death—namely self-annihilation—reveals a counter narrative. What could be more chilling than suicide, especially the violent death of the young? What desperation or madness pushed the victim to raise the gun to the temple or slip the noose around the neck? A close examination of a wide range of twentieth-century historical documents proves that Mexicans did not accept death with a cavalier chuckle nor develop a unique death cult, for that matter. Quite the reverse, Mexicans behaved just as their contemporaries did in Austria, France, England, and the United States. They devoted scientific inquiry to the malady and mourned the loss of each life to suicide.

TASYBIH DALAM KITAB QASHIDAH BURDAH KARYA SYAIKH MUHAMMAD IMAM AL BUSHIRI

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-59
Author(s):  
Saepul Iman ◽  
Deden Hidayat ◽  
Asep Supianudin
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Method ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
The Temple

Kitab Qashidah Burdah is a book authored by Shaykh Muhammad Al Bushiri. This Qashidah in the book tells the story of the story of the Prophet Muhammad, the Apostolic privileges, the Prophet Muhammad, to the miracle. In Verse-verse contained in the book of Qashidah is very beautiful Burdah. Therefore, the very need to be examined, beauty-beauty that exists on the Poetry Book. Qashidah Burdah by using the review Balaghoh Bayan Tasybih Science in particular. The problem in this research include what type of Tasybih in the book Qashidah Burdah works of Shaykh Muhammad Imam Al Bushiri?, and how Tasybih Purpose in the book Qashidah Burdah works of Shaykh Muhammad Imam Al Bushiri?. As for the purpose of this research is to know the type and purpose of Tasybih in the book Qashidah Burdah works of Shaykh Muhammad Imam Al Bushiri. To achieve that goal this research uses descriptive analytic method. Descriptive analytic method is done by means of descript the data in the form of a word or phrase containing Tasybih, then proceed with the analysis. This research uses the study of science science approach with Parrot Balaghah.  Conclusion of this research is that the Tasybih contained in the book of Qashidah Burdah works of Shaykh Muhammad Imam Al Bushiri 11 types of Tasybih, such as: Tasybih Mursal Mufashshal on get at 4 Temple of poetry, Tasybih Puberty in the get on 2 the Temple of poetry, Tasybih Mursal Mujmal Temple poems on 2, Tasybih Mufashshal Ghoiru Tamtsil Mursal at 2 Temple of poetry, Tasybih Muakkad Mufashshal at 2 Temple of poetry, Tasybih Mursal Mufashshal Tamtsil at 7 Tasybih poetry, Mursal Temple on Temple 5 poems Tasybih Mujmal Temple poems 1 Tasybih, Muakkad Mufashshal Tamtsil at 1 Temple of poetry, and Tasybih Muakkad Mujmal Maqlub 1 Temple, Tasybih Dhimny Temple on 12 verses. The purpose of Tasybih found in: Bayan musyabbah al things in 28 Temple of poetry, Bayan al imkan musyabbah in poetry, Tazyin Temple 3 al musyabbah in the 5th stanza poem, Mengongkritkan musyabbah Temple in three verses, and Bayan miqdar al musyabbah thing in 3 Temple poems

A Pleasing Odour for Yahweh

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Anne Katrine De Hemmer Gudme
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The West ◽  
Sense Of Smell ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Crucial Part

This article investigates the importance of smell in the sacrificial cults of the ancient Mediterranean, using the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim and the Hebrew Bible as a case-study. The material shows that smell was an important factor in delineating sacred space in the ancient world and that the sense of smell was a crucial part of the conceptualization of the meeting between the human and the divine.  In the Hebrew Bible, the temple cult is pervaded by smell. There is the sacred oil laced with spices and aromatics with which the sanctuary and the priests are anointed. There is the fragrant and luxurious incense, which is burnt every day in front of Yahweh and finally there are the sacrifices and offerings that are burnt on the altar as ‘gifts of fire’ and as ‘pleasing odors’ to Yahweh. The gifts that are given to Yahweh are explicitly described as pleasing to the deity’s sense of smell. On Mount Gerizim, which is close to present-day Nablus on the west bank, there once stood a temple dedicated to the god Yahweh, whom we also know from the Hebrew Bible. The temple was in use from the Persian to the Hellenistic period (ca. 450 – 110 BCE) and during this time thousands of animals (mostly goats, sheep, pigeons and cows) were slaughtered and burnt on the altar as gifts to Yahweh. The worshippers who came to the sanctuary – and we know some of them by name because they left inscriptions commemorating their visit to the temple – would have experienced an overwhelming combination of smells: the smell of spicy herbs baked by the sun that is carried by the wind, the smell of humans standing close together and the smell of animals, of dung and blood, and behind it all as a backdrop of scent the constant smell of the sacrificial smoke that rises to the sky.

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