Jesus, the Temple, and Early Christian Memory

Scott K Brevard

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Pickwick Publications
07 August 2025

New Testaments; Christian leaders & leadership

Jewish identity during the Second Temple period (515 BCE-70 CE) was complex, multifaceted, and variable, but many studies of this period treat Jewish attitudes toward one key feature--the Jerusalem temple--as simple and uniform. Brevard aims to complicate this notion by examining early Christian traditions of Jesus's relationship with the temple. Early Christian memory constructed, transformed, and transmitted traditions about the past into their present contexts. Examining early Christian memory, as represented by canonical and noncanonical gospel traditions in the first three centuries CE, allows scholars to ask how certain figures, institutions, or beliefs were remembered and represented, as well as to posit theories as to why memories were constructed in particular ways and how these memories related to their contemporary historical and social frameworks. Early Christians remembered Jesus as having a complex relationship with the Jerusalem temple, and these early Christian traditions of Jesus impacted their own contemporary worldviews. This complicated relationship with the temple, however, was not a new phenomenon but one that was already familiar to those constructing, experiencing, remembering, and transmitting their Jewish identity throughout the diaspora world in the Second Temple period.

By: Scott K Brevard
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9798385250271
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 07 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott K. Brevard received his doctorate in Theology from Loyola University Chicago. Prior to entering the program at Loyola, he studied at the University of Georgia and James Madison University. Brevard has taught courses in Theology, New Testament, and World Religions and presented his research at both regional and national meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Reviews for Jesus, the Temple, and Early Christian Memory

""Distinguished by its engaging style and judicious selection of dialogue partners, Scott Brevard's excellent book demonstrates how a nuanced analysis of social memory theory and Jewish attitudes to the Jerusalem temple can sharpen our grasp of how the early Christians remembered Jesus and the temple--and why they did so in the ways they did."" --Wayne Coppins, Professor of Religion, University of Georgia ""Scott Brevard's analysis breaks essential new ground in its attention to the most obvious yet so far completely neglected 'site of memory' in the study of Christian origins: the Jerusalem Temple. Theoretically grounded and carefully reasoned, this work will open up a new, fertile area for scholarly enquiry."" --Alan Kirk, Professor of Religion, James Madison University