Architecture and Utopia in the Temple Era

This book proposes a new reconstruction of the Temple, which differs from conventional descriptions in Jewish literary sources during the First and Second Temple eras. Individual descriptions of the Temple are examined independently and the influence of earlier descriptions on subsequent ones is considered. Detailed architectural diagrams and three-dimensional models accompany the different reconstructions of the temple.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Meeting-Tent Tabernacle Temple
Chapter 2 - From Tent to Tent and Tabernacle
Chapter 3 - The First Temple in Jerusalem

Chapter 4 - The Temple of the Temple Scroll

Chapter 5 - The Second Temple
Chapter 6 - The Utopian State and the Ideal City

Chapter 7 - Jewish Design Thinking in the First and Second Temple Periods

Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Architecture and Utopia - Theory and Practice

Appendix A: Number Mysticism in the Ancient World and in the Scriptures

Appendix B: A Modular and Arithmetological Analysis of the Temples

About the author

Michael Chyutin obtained his PhD at the Technion Institute in Haifa and lives in Givataim, Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Chyutin, Chyutin Michael
• Assisted by: Lester L. Grabbe (Editor), Richard Flantz (Translation)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2006
• EAN: 9780567030542
• ISBN: 978-0-567-03054-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Library of Second Temple Studi; Library of Second Temple Studi; The Library of Second Temple Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Judaism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis