The Temple and the Community in Qumran and the New Testament
A Comparative Study in the Temple Symbolism of the Qumran Texts and the New Testament

This is the first of a series of monograph supplements to the journal New Testament Studies.

Bertil Gärtner (Author)

9780521020480, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 October 2005

180 pages
21.6 x 13.6 x 1 cm, 0.237 kg

This is the first of a series of monograph supplements to the journal New Testament Studies. The main purpose of the series is to make possible publication of work which is too long for inclusion in the journal. The monographs will be published in either English, French or German: the present one is in English. Dr Gärtner's purpose is to follow in detail the parallels between the New Testament and Qumran writings in their concpet of the community - Christian or Essene - as a spiritual temple. The whole complex of relationships between Qumran and the early Church is studied with the purpose of extending our knowledge of the Jewish background of the New Testament. Dr Gärtner's conclusions lend strong support to the view that it is from this Qumran type of Judaism that the Christian Church arose.

List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The priesthood and the Jerusalem temple
2. The temple priests and qumran
3. The 'new temple' in qumran
4. Temple symbolism in the new testament
5. Temple symbolism and christology, collective and individual
Bibliography
Index of authors
Index of subjects
Index of passages quoted.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]