The Cleansing of the Temple

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
John Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Cleansing Of The Temple ◽  
The Temple

Mark: Criticism or Rejection?

2019 ◽  
pp. 96-126
Author(s):  
Eyal Regev
Keyword(s):  
Jerusalem Temple ◽  
Negative View ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Cleansing Of The Temple ◽  
The Temple

This chapter focuses on Mark's criticism of the Temple. The Temple plays an important role in Mark 11–15. It is central in Jesus's cleansing of the Temple, the reference to the “abomination of desolation,” the purported prediction of the destruction of the Temple in Mark 13, and several additional passages—all of which leads interpreters of Mark to conclude that Mark holds a completely negative view of the Temple. Important commentators think that Mark introduces Jesus as a new Temple that substitutes for the old one. Others argue that Jesus's mission in Mark is “anti-Temple”—that the Temple “stands condemned of corruption by trade and politics,” leading to Jesus's “disqualification” of it since “the Kingdom has been dissociated from the Jerusalem Temple.” The chapter then looks at an alternative approach which views Mark as less critical of the Temple.

THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE

1924 ◽  
Vol os-XXV (100) ◽  
pp. 386-390
Author(s):  
F. C. BURKITT
Keyword(s):  
Cleansing Of The Temple ◽  
The Temple

Josephus and the New Testament

1960 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 306
Author(s):  
H.W. Montefiore
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Cleansing Of The Temple ◽  
Key Events ◽  
The Temple

AbstractThe major part of this article has already been published in an earlier number of this volume, fasc. 2 (December 1960), pp. 139 -160. The intention of the writer is to point out similarities between some key events recorded in the synoptic Gospels and Acts, and a series of prodigies described by Josephus (Jewish War 6.5.3) and connected by him with the destruction of the Temple. Remarkably close correspondences of date between the two series of events have been suggested and possible allusions to some of them have been found in the Gospel to the Hebrews, the Talmud (j. Yoma 6. 43c) and Tacitus (Hitories, v. 13). The Star at Jesus' Birth, The Rending of the Temple Veil and the Cleansing of the Temple have already been discussed.

Sacrificial Practice and Language

2018 ◽  
pp. 461-476
Author(s):  
Christian A. Eberhart
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Ritual Theory ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
Cleansing Of The Temple ◽  
The Temple

This chapter deals with sacrificial practice and language among the earliest Christians according to New Testament literature. It notes the ambivalent attitude of Jesus towards Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem and its sacrificial worship, which is manifest in the episode called ‘Cleansing of the Temple’ (Mark 11:15–19). This tendency probably led early Christians to discontinue actual sacrificial practices in their own worship; New Testament texts mention the Jewish sacrificial cult occasionally, but mostly employ sacrificial metaphors. The only exception is the celebration of the Eucharist, which appears as a renewal ritual to substitute for the early Jewish sacrificial cult. Hence this chapter explores sacrificial rituals in the Hebrew Bible, first, through a ritual theory approach and, second, with a theological perspective. The New Testament authors embrace the latter in their use of sacrificial metaphors in Christological concepts and paraenetic contexts.

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