Tag Archives: Second Temple

From Isaiah to Ezekiel to Heavenly Ascent

By David Larsen | Published: August 4, 2008
My Comments on Martha Himmelfarb’s Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses The next major work that I will be looking at here is Princeton professor of religion, Martha Himmelfarb’s book entitled Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). This work is significantly influential in the [...]
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They Shall See His Face

By David Larsen | Published: July 21, 2008
Insights from Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship: Part V After a rather long tangent looking at the suppression of ancient doctrines and ordinances, I now return to my commentary on Margaret Barker’s work on the themes of the First Temple that show up in later Christian beliefs. This post will focus on Chapter 6 [...]
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The Priestly Suppression of Ancient Truths

By David Larsen | Published: July 15, 2008
  King Josiah’s Reforms Before moving on to more evidence of the suppression of ancient truths, this time at the hands of postexilic priestly editors, I want to mention a couple more good commentaries on the Deuteronomistic reforms, mentioned in my last post. First, I remembered another great article–a book review–by Kevin Christensen, featured in the FARMS Review [...]
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The Suppression of Ancient Truths

By David Larsen | Published: July 12, 2008
In this post, there is a key idea that I want to focus on from my post “How Many Judaisms.” This is the notion that the “mainstream” form of Judaism in the postexilic period, rather than being a direct representation of more ancient Israelite religion, was, in fact, involved in the suppression of ancient truths.This [...]
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Exciting News from the Temple Institute

By David Larsen | Published: July 9, 2008
In the interval while I am writing some follow-up thoughts to my last post, I thought I would share some exciting news with you from the Temple Institute, a Jerusalem organization which has as its goal the building of a temple in Jerusalem. In case you haven’t heard of them, please have a look at [...]
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