Various Aspects of Worship in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature / Ibolya Balla, Géza G. Xeravits, József Zsengellér.

Frontmatter -- Preface of the Editorial Board of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook -- Preface -- Contents -- How did Early Judaism Understand the Concept of ʻAvodah? -- The Garland: A Sign of Worship and Acknowledgement -- Temples and Sanctuaries within Their Apocalyptic Setting -- Solomon's Temple and Israel's Earlier Cultic Traditions in 2 Chronicles 1−8 -- Sirach Chapter 2 and the Temple -- Ben Sira on the Piety of Men and the Piety of Women -- Word and Prayer in the Book of Ben Sira -- Worship in the Restored Second Temple in Sirach 50 -- The Temple as a Place of Worship and the God of Heaven in 2 Maccabees -- A Narrative-Therapeutic Reading of the Martyr Narrative in 2 Maccabees 6 and 7 -- Bodily Signs of Penitence in the Book of Baruch -- Piety without the Temple according to the Book of Baruch -- Babylonian Priests in the Description of the Epistle of Jeremiah -- No Place for Worship -- Gestures and Locations of Worship in the Book of Tobit -- Charity and Cult in the Book of Tobit -- Worship and Holy Places in the Wisdom of Solomon -- Aspects of Worship in the Letter of Aristeas -- Die kosmische Bedeutung des jüdischen Hohenpriesters im Denken Philos von Alexandrien -- Temple and Synagogue in Late Antiquity -- Worship in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum -- Worship and Creation -- Contributors -- Index of References

The volume contains papers read at the International Conference of the ISDCL, held in Budapest in 2015. The contributors explore various aspects of worship as reflected in the literature of Judaism from the Second Temple period to Late Antiquity. The volume provides a fresh reading of various crucial issues especially within Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Rabbinic literature, Gnostic traditions, and the emerging synagogue. The papers analyse texts and artefacts that reveal how various groups of Judaism understood the concept of worship--a pre-eminent form of expressing religious identity and interpreting fundamental traditions.

In English.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jun 2017).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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