Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Veils in the Old Testament
- 3 Functionality and Identity of the ‘Veil of the Temple’
- 4 The Veil in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
- 5 Matthew's Temple and Jesus' Death: Hermeneutical Keys to the Rending of the Veil
- 6 Analysis of the Matthean Velum Scissum Pericope
- Conclusion: Matthew's velum scissum – Retrospect and Prospect
- Diagram: Veil Language in the Structure of the Tabernacle
- Appendix 1 Veil Language in the Old Testament
- Appendix 2 Veil Language in the Two Tabernacle Accounts
- Appendix 3 Kαταπέτασμα and the חכרפ
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts
- Index of Select Subjects
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Select Terms
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Veils in the Old Testament
- 3 Functionality and Identity of the ‘Veil of the Temple’
- 4 The Veil in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
- 5 Matthew's Temple and Jesus' Death: Hermeneutical Keys to the Rending of the Veil
- 6 Analysis of the Matthean Velum Scissum Pericope
- Conclusion: Matthew's velum scissum – Retrospect and Prospect
- Diagram: Veil Language in the Structure of the Tabernacle
- Appendix 1 Veil Language in the Old Testament
- Appendix 2 Veil Language in the Two Tabernacle Accounts
- Appendix 3 Kαταπέτασμα and the חכרפ
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts
- Index of Select Subjects
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Select Terms
Summary
This volume is a minor revision of my Ph.D. thesis completed under the supervision of Prof. Richard J. Bauckham at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. I am grateful for Prof. Bauckham's very capable supervision, as he patiently corrected careless oversights and fallacious reasoning. Not only has his gracious supervision has informed my work in the Gospels and Second Temple Judaism, but his honest scholarship, done at the highest level, has been a formative example for me. I am likewise grateful to Prof. Ron Piper, who, though late in coming to my supervisory aid, was nonetheless decisively influential in crafting my argumentation with care and precision.
I am particularly grateful to Dr G. K. Beale for his enduring encouragement in my research, for his rigorous, thorough, and worshipful exegetical fervor, and for his love for Jesus Christ that is evident through it. I am grateful to my parents, Donald and Marilyn Gurtner and Wayne and Sharon Greenwood, for unwavering support of my calling and studies. I am grateful to Prof. John Court for accepting this piece for the SNTS Monograph Series, and to Dr Donald A. Hagner for recommending that he do so, along with offering some valuable suggestions for how to introduce the subject.
While the present work has been submitted to the scholarly community for scrutiny and critique, it is, more importantly, submitted to the glory of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as an act of obedient worship, of which he alone is worthy.
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- The Torn VeilMatthew's Exposition of the Death of Jesus, pp. xii - xiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006