Piety without the Temple according to the Book of Baruch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface of the Editorial Board of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook vii
3. Preface ix
4. Contents xi
5. How did Early Judaism Understand the Concept of ʿAvodah? 1
6. The Garland: A Sign of Worship and Acknowledgement 17
7. Temples and Sanctuaries within Their Apocalyptic Setting 41
8. Solomon’s Temple and Israel’s Earlier Cultic Traditions in 2 Chronicles 1−8 63
9. Sirach Chapter 2 and the Temple 77
10. Ben Sira on the Piety of Men and the Piety of Women 107
11. Word and Prayer in the Book of Ben Sira 117
12. Worship in the Restored Second Temple in Sirach 50 141
13. The Temple as a Place of Worship and the God of Heaven in 2 Maccabees 167
14. A Narrative-Therapeutic Reading of the Martyr Narrative in 2 Maccabees 6 and 7 181
15. Bodily Signs of Penitence in the Book of Baruch 197
16. Piety without the Temple according to the Book of Baruch 215
17. Babylonian Priests in the Description of the Epistle of Jeremiah 225
18. No Place for Worship 247
19. Gestures and Locations of Worship in the Book of Tobit 261
20. Charity and Cult in the Book of Tobit 277
21. Worship and Holy Places in the Wisdom of Solomon 289
22. Aspects of Worship in the Letter of Aristeas 305
23. Die kosmische Bedeutung des jüdischen Hohenpriesters im Denken Philos von Alexandrien 319
24. Temple and Synagogue in Late Antiquity 341
25. Worship in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 365
26. Worship and Creation 389
27. Contributors 421
28. Index of References 423