AN N EA 10W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cherub, Iron Age, Mircea Eliade
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Wk 3: Building Temple in Jerusalem
Monday, April 16, 2018 10:15 AM
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Tuesday
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Making Jerusalem Sacred: Solomon's temple
The United Monarchy (1000-930)
• Political entity established in Israel by David
• Represents unification of tribes of Israel
• Temple presents the Davidic Dynasty
• First Kings of Israel (Books of Samuel and Kings)
○ Saul (1050-1010)
○ David (1010-970)
• United tribes, defeated Philistines
• Moved capital of monarchy to Jerusalem
• Began process of building temple
○ Solomon (970-930)
• Built the First Temple
• Height of kingdom; robust economic, political power
• Solomon needed to make treaties with surrounding cities in order to make Israel a robust, center
of economy
Biblical Summary of King Solomon
• ~970-930 BC
• 1 Kings 1-11
• Palace Intrigues- 1 Kings 1
○ Taken down to Gihon where Solomon was coronated
○ 1 Kings 1:33-34
○Importance of water (1 kings 1: 9.38) in relation to transfer of power
• "Riding on a Donkey"
○ Zechariah 9:9-10; Matthew 21: 5
○ The humble or triumphant king?
○ Motif that creates association to royal line of David
• Solomon builds his own palace --> 1Kings 5
• Solomon builds temple --> 1 Kings 6-8
• Area G- popular region of excavation in City of David
○ Area of focus in discovering if there are remains of biblical figures from Kings and 1
Samuel
○ 'Stepped stone structure' - unknown function; probably ~1000-800 BCE
○ Possibly: built for support, fortification
○ Argument that David's Palace was built on top of this 'Stepped Stone Structure'
Solomon's Jerusalem
• Anointed king as Gihon Spring (1 Kings 1)
• Expands Jerusalem northwards (Ophel & TM)
• Builds palace [1 Kings 5, 7:1-12]
• Builds the Temple [1 Kings 6-8]
○ Fulfillment of promise that Yahweh made to David
Solomon's Temple
• 1 Kings 6-8 provides a lot of boring, tedious physical descriptions of the temple
• Solomon's temple is a classic example of a "long room temple"
• 3 divisions
• Israelite God dwells in the shadows, in back of the temple, separate from the rest
○ Deity is there, but also transcendent
○ Holy of Holies is unreachable except once a year by the Great High Priest (Leviticus)
• Bible developed a metaphysical way of looking at the physical parts of Solomon's Temple
○ Tells us what the ancient Israelites thought of the Temple
Temples as Sacred Space
Imago mundi
Every world is the work of the gods, for it was either created directly by the gods or was consecrated,
hence cosmicized, by men ritually reactualizing the paradigmatic act of Creation
•Mircea Eliade
Interpretation of scholarly speech: Sacred space represents humans copying the divine
The Bronze Sea (Yam or "sea")
•Biblical text connects temple to the image of creation
• Large bowl of water
Timeline of Jerusalem's history
Ancient Israel/Early Judaism
1200 Beginning of iron age
1000 King David captures Jerusalem
960 Solomon builds first Temple
930 Division of the United Monarchy
745-
612
Assyrian period
722 Destruction of N kingdom of israel
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