- Tytuł:
- Leḥerut Yerushalayim: The Temple at the Time of the Bar Kokhba War
- Autorzy:
- Girardin, Michaël
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/52229577.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2019
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
- Tematy:
-
Aelia Capitolina
Bar Kokhba
Coins
Elephantine Temple
Gerizim Temple
Hasmoneans/ Maccabees
Jerusalem
Jewish Revolt
Leontopolis Temple
Paleo-Hebrew script
Sicarii
the Temple
Theocracy
Zealots - Opis:
- In the third year of his fight against Rome (134/135 CE), Bar Kokhba minted coins with the slogan “leḥerut Yerushalayim: For the freedom of Jerusalem”. In this paper, I argue that what was meant by this expression was not the geographic place but a powerful idea: the worship center of the Jewish identity. Jerusalem as a slogan seems to be a metonymy for the temple, and the temple was the link between God and the Jews. By proclaiming the necessity to liberate Jerusalem, Bar Kokhba actually tried to regroup all the Jews under his banner, exploiting the theocratic ideals and the eschatological hopes of the time. However, the documents found in the desert reveal that this propagandist expectancy was not universally shared by his own troops. For the political needs of the leader, “Jerusalem” was probably the best slogan possible, but it appears to have meant little in real life, even perhaps in the eyes of Bar Kokhba himself.
- Źródło:
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Electrum; 2019, 26; 159-176
1897-3426
2084-3909 - Pojawia się w:
- Electrum
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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