PREFACE

PROLEGOMENA

EDITORIAL STATEMENT

ALBERDINA HOUTMAN

MARCEL POORTHUIS

JOSHUA SCHWARTZ

Introduction

PART ONE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SACRED TIME AND SPACE

BARUCH J. SCHWARTZ

Torah from Zion: Isaiah's Temple Vision (Isaiah 2:1-4)

PANCRATIUS C. BEENTJES

Transformations of Space and Time: Nathan's Oracle and David's Prayer in 1 Chronicles 17

BART J. KOET

Holy Place and Hannah's Prayer: A Comparison of LAB 50-51 and Luke 2:22-39 a Propos 1 Samuel 1-2

MARTIEN PARMENTIER

The Lasting Sanctity of Bethesda

LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN

Ir Ha-Miqdash and its Meaning in the Temple Scroll and Other Qumran Texts

PART TWO POSTBIBLICAL PERIOD

Judaism

LIEVE TEUGELS

Holiness and Mysticism at Sinai According to the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael

SHMUEL SAFRAI

Jerusalem and the Temple in the Tannaitic Literature of the First Generation after the Destruction of the Temple

ALBERDINA HOUTMAN

`They Direct Their Hearts to Jerusalem': References to Jerusalem and Temple in Mishnah and Tosefta Berakhot

JOSHUA SCHWARTZ

`To Stand--Perhaps to Sit': Sitting and Standing in the Azarah in the Second Temple Period

Christianity

ZE'EV SAFRAI

The Institutionalization of the Cult of Saints in Christian Society

HILLEL ISAAC NEWMAN

Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem: Jerome and the Holy Places of Palestine

Judaism and Christianity

MARCEL POORTHUIS

Moses' Rod in Zipporah's Garden

GERARD ROUWHORST

Liturgical Time and Space in Early Christianity In Light of Their Jewish Background

AARON DEMSKY

Holy City and Holy Land as Viewed by Jews and Christians in the Byzantine Period: A Conceptual Approach to Sacred Space

PART THREE MODERN PERIOD

PAUL POST

Post-modern Pilgrimage: Christian Ritual Between Liturgy and `Topolatry'

OPHIR YARDEN

The Sanctity of Mount Herzl and Independence Day in Israel's Civil Religion

AMOS RON

A Rachel for Everyone: The Kinneret Cemetery as a Site of Civil Pilgrimage

Appendix: Translation of the 29 line Rehob Inscription

Maps and Illustrations

Index of Names and Subjects

Index of Ancient Sources