Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and Israel

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Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in the Ancient Near East and IsraelThis book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a

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