{"id":19118,"date":"2015-03-30T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=19118"},"modified":"2015-03-30T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T20:04:09","slug":"some-notes-on-gary-rendsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/some-notes-on-gary-rendsburg.html","title":{"rendered":"Some notes on Gary Rendsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19119\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/800px-Edfoe_Pylon.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19119\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/800px-Edfoe_Pylon-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Edfu outer pylon\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pylon of the temple at Edfu, in Egypt<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now for some random notes on Gary Rendsburg\u2019s early afternoon presentation, \u201cThe Psalms as Hymns in the Temple of Jerusalem \u2014 at Passover and Throughout the Year\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He started off \u2014 and this pleased me very much \u2014 with comparisons to the Egyptian temple of Edfu, offering several wonderful images of that very large structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then he contrasted what we know about Egyptian temple liturgy, which abounded in singers and hymns, to the view of the temple at Jerusalem as a \u201csanctuary of silence\u201d propounded most famously by the late <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yehezkel_Kaufmann\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yehezkel Kaufmann<\/a>\u00a0and furthered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Sanctuary-Silence-Priestly-Holiness\/dp\/1575061317\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Israel Knohl<\/a>. \u00a0According to this view, the priests carried out their program of ritual sacrifice more or less in complete silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He thinks this view mistaken, and he spent much of the rest of his presentation talking about the prayers and supplications (and so forth) that seem pretty clearly to have occurred in the temple. \u00a0The temple was a place of prayer \u2014 certainly in the Second Temple period (essentially the six centuries between 530 BC and 70 AD) \u2014 not merely a site of sacrifice, though \u201cpriestly\u201d sources emphasized the latter, not the former.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 And now for some random notes on Gary Rendsburg\u2019s early afternoon presentation, \u201cThe Psalms as Hymns in the Temple of Jerusalem \u2014 at Passover and Throughout the Year\u201d: \u00a0 He started off \u2014 and this pleased me very much \u2014 with comparisons to the Egyptian temple of Edfu, offering several wonderful images of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some notes on Gary Rendsburg<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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