Seminar: The Jerusalem Temple and Priesthood in History, Memory, and Liturgy, Part 1

Session Submission Type: Seminar

Abstract

This seminar brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine the Second Temple and priesthood in antiquity over three sessions. The session examines the historical Temple and the immediate consequences of its destruction. The second will address the constructed memory of the Temple in rabbinic literature from Palestine and Mesopotamia. A third session will deal with the representation of the Temple in late antique Christian and Islamic sources and in visual and plastic depictions in Jewish and other contexts. Our goal is to reopen a conversation about the significance of the historical temple and the transformation of that significance in the centuries after its destruction.

1. The Second Temple and Its Priesthood as Historical Institutions.
Gordon, Ben, Marvels of an Eastern Temple: Ethnographic Tourism, Jerusalem, and Pilgrimage
Cities of the Barbaroi
Grey, Matthew, The Role of Jewish Priests in Early Synagogue Leadership and Liturgy
Reinhartz, Adele, Temple, Trauma, and “The Parting of the Ways”
Schwartz, Daniel,The Temple in 2 Maccabees
Schwartz, Seth respondent

2. The Temple in Rabbinic Imagination
Cohn, Naftali, Between Individual and Group: Again on the Mishnaic Construction of Temple Ritual
Lehman, Marjorie, The Priesthood in the Rabbinic Imagination: A View from Massekhet Yoma on the Prohibition Against Wearing Shoes on Yom Kippur
Schumer , Nathan, Space and Memory in the Mishnah
Swartz, Michael, Ritual function, Textual Transmission, and Sacrifice in Mishnah Yoma
Kanarek,Jane, Respondent

3. Thinking with the Temple in Late Antiquity and Beyond
Branham, Joan, Resurrecting the Temple: From Dura Europos to the TV Mini-series DIG
Irshai, Oded, The New Temple: Eusebius of Caesarea's Consecration address for the Church in Tyre
Koltun-From, Naomi, Eschatological Sacred Rocks of Jerusalem
Mann, Vivian, Remembering the Temple in the Furnishing and Decoration of Synagogues
Lapin, Hayim, Respondent

Sub Unit

• Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity

Chairs

• Seth Schwartz, Columbia University

• Jane Kanarek, Hebrew College

• Hayim Lapin, University of Maryland

Discussants

• Benjamin Gordon, University of Pittsburgh

• Matthew Grey, Brigham Young University

• Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa

• Daniel R. Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Naftali S. Cohn, Concordia University

• Marjorie Lehman, The Jewish Theological Seminary

• Nathan Schumer, Columbia University

• Michael D. Swartz, Ohio State University

• Joan R. Branham, Providence College

• Oded Irshai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College

• Vivian Beth Mann, The Jewish Theological Seminary