The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora: Jewish Practice and Thought during the Second Temple Period

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The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora: Jewish Practice and Thought during the Second Temple Period is written by Jonathan Trotter and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004409858 (ISBN 10) and 9789004409859 (ISBN 13).

In The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora, Jonathan Trotter shows how different diaspora Jews’ perspectives on the distant city of Jerusalem and the temple took shape while living in the diaspora, an experience which often is characterized by complicated senses of alienation from and belonging to an ancestral homeland and one’s current home. This book investigates not only the perspectives of the individual diaspora Jews whose writings mention the Jerusalem temple (Letter of Aristeas, Philo of Alexandria, 2 Maccabees, and 3 Maccabees) but also the customs of diaspora Jewish communities linking them to the temple, such as their financial contributions and pilgrimages there.