Palace and Temple

This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of analysis developed in built environment studies, the author interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained as presenting communicative icons intended to influence contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes with innovative interpretations of the contributions of architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.

Introduction	p. 1
Method of Architectural and Textual Study	p. 5
Architecture and the Built Environment	p. 8
Sennacherib's Palace in Nineveh	p. 16
Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem	p. 28
Sennacherib's Palace in Nineveh	p. 45
The Texts	p. 48
The Building	p. 66
Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem	p. 87
Issues of Historicity	p. 90
Previous Approaches to Solomon's Temple	p. 100
Literary Approaches to Temple Descriptions	p. 110
Solomon's Temple in 1 Kings: The Text	p. 112
Built Environment Analysis of the Temple Description	p. 130
Interpretation of the Verbal Icon	p. 139
Context of the Verbal Icon	p. 142
Palace and Temple: Architectural Icons, Verbal Icons, And Religious Reform	p. 149
Sennacherib's Palace without Rival at Nineveh	p. 150
Sennacherib's Unique Use of Creation Imagery	p. 151
Sennacherib's Reform and the Counter Reformation That Ended His Reign	p. 163
Solomon's Temple without Rival in Jerusalem	p. 168
The Temple and the Ark in the Deuteronomistic Reform	p. 172
Priestly Counter Reform	p. 177
The Ark and Religious Reform	p. 183
Reform and the Verbal Icon	p. 188
Conclusion	p. 191
Abbreviations	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 197
Indices	p. 215
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