Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of works by Morna D. Hooker
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introductory Essay
- I THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY
- II SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN SOURCES
- III SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN THEMES
- Chapter 14 ‘In accordance with the Scriptures’
- Chapter 15 Land, sanctuary and worship
- Chapter 16 Monotheism and christology
- Chapter 17 Apocalyptic, God and the world.
- Chapter 18 Atonement and martyrdom
- Chapter 19 Halakhah and ethics in the Jesus tradition
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Index of texts
Chapter 15 - Land, sanctuary and worship
from III - SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN THEMES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of works by Morna D. Hooker
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introductory Essay
- I THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY
- II SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN SOURCES
- III SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN THEMES
- Chapter 14 ‘In accordance with the Scriptures’
- Chapter 15 Land, sanctuary and worship
- Chapter 16 Monotheism and christology
- Chapter 17 Apocalyptic, God and the world.
- Chapter 18 Atonement and martyrdom
- Chapter 19 Halakhah and ethics in the Jesus tradition
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Index of texts
Summary
Leading them in, plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, In thy ready dwelling, which thou, Lord, didst make, The sanctuary, Lord, which thy hands made ready.
(Exodus 15.17 LXX)Long labours both by land and sea he bore
And in the doubtful war, before he won
The Latian realm, and built the destined town:
His banished gods restored to rites divine,
And settled sure succession in his line:
From whence the race of Alban fathers come,
And the long glories of majestic Rome.
Virgil, Aeneid i 3–7 (c. 25 bce), translated by Dryden)For Jews, as for Greeks and Romans, the homeland and the sanctuary and its service were tangible realities and highly charged symbols. The importance and the interconnection of the three themes can more easily be seen in Jewish and gentile writings like those quoted above than in the New Testament. Yet, when Christian thought is viewed in its Jewish setting – which in this case, as often, has many points of contact with the Greek and Roman settings – the three themes stand out and their links are visible.
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- Early Christian Thought in its Jewish Context , pp. 207 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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