The Letter of Barnabas and the Jerusalem Temple

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" The Letter of Barnabas and the Jerusalem Temple "
Anthony Sheppard

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075420
Doc. No	:	LA119049
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12481176‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Anthony Sheppard
Title & Author	:	The Letter of Barnabas and the Jerusalem Temple [Article]\ Anthony Sheppard
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	48/4-5
Page No	:	531–550
Abstract	:	This article examines a short passage in the Letter of Barnabas (16:3-4) which appears to refer to a rumoured, planned, or actual contemporary rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple under Roman auspices. I identify a possible historical context and set the possible attempted reconstruction of the Temple in the framework of Roman policy relating to colonies and indigenous temples. In particular, I reject attempts to date Barnabas from a cryptic apocalyptic quotation (4:4-5), preferring to rely mainly on an apparent reference to 4 Ezra, datable to ca. 100 ce. Combining this approach to dating with a search for possible historical contexts leads me to opt for a Hadrianic date, specifically during the planning of the Roman military colony of Aelia Capitolina, for the actual or, more likely, planned/rumoured reconstruction of the Temple.
Descriptor	:	4 Ezra
Descriptor	:	Barnabas
Descriptor	:	colony
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Jerusalem
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	temple
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12481176‬