By Steven Fine
The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah brings jointly an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging overseas group of students to debate elements of the background and persevered lifetime of the Jerusalem Temple in Western tradition, from biblical instances to the current. This quantity is the fruit of the inaugural convention of the Yeshiva college middle for Israel reviews, which convened in big apple urban on may perhaps 11-12, 2008 and honors Professor Louis H. Feldman, Abraham Wouk relations Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva college. Feldman is the doyen of recent scholarship on Judaism within the Greco-Roman interval, targeting the writings of Flavius Josephus. A cherished mentor to generations of Yeshiva collage scholars and of students around the globe, Professor Feldman has taught at YU when you consider that 1955. The articles are continuously of top of the range.
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Brill, 1983). It is adopted without discussion by L. Feldman, Studies in Josephus’ Rewritten Bible (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995). g. m. Avot 4:13, following on Eccl 7:1. On Bezalel in Rabbinic sources, see L. Ginzberg, “Bezalel in Rabbinical Literature,” in The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904) 3: 135; The Liturgical Poetry of Rabbi Yannai, ed. Z. M. Rabi- josephus’ portrayal of the biblical “architect” 31 antique Aramaic paraphrase of the Pentateuch, for example, translates “See, Moses, that I have appointed (alternate version: “remembered”) and called by the good name of our master Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur .
Sperber, The Bible in Aramaic (Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1992), 4a: 5, 6; M. Seligsohn, “Hur: Biblical Data”; L. Ginzberg and J. Jacobs, “Hur in Rabbinical Literature,” The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904) 6: 506. 32 steven fine the son of Caleb and Miriam in his retelling of Exodus 17, the battle with Amalek. Paraphrasing Exodus 17, Josephus writes that Moses “told his brother Aaron and Hur, their sister Miriam’s husband, to stand on each side of him and take hold of his hands.
105. Their names, for they have been recorded officially in the sacred books, were these: Basaelos, son of Ouri of the tribe of Ioudas, grandson of Mariamme the sister of the general and Elibazos, son of Isamachos, of the tribe of Dan. 106. The multitude made themselves available with such enthusiasm for the undertakings that Moyses curbed them, having proclaimed that those men who were present were sufficient, for the craftsmen had announced this previously. Therefore, they proceeded the construction of the Tent.