TY - GEN T1 - Praying to the Temple : Divine Presence in Solomon's Prayer. T2 - Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology Ser. A1 - Wilson, I. LA - English PP - Leuven PB - Peeters Publishers & Booksellers YR - 2022 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1303085410 AB - There is a long-standing consensus that Solomon's prayer in 1 Kings 8 characterizes YHWH as having been 'relocated' to heaven and therefore no longer present in the temple. This study is the first sustained attempt to challenge that view. It does so by focusing on a hitherto overlooked collocation within the chapter, and concludes that the prayer portrays YHWH as being present both in heaven and in the building. Such a finding inevitably has consequences for wider issues involving divine presence both within and beyond the confines of 1 Kings 8. These include a cluster of ideas traced to the large central section of the chapter and involving a purely transcendent Deity, a (semi-)independent divine "name" inhabiting the sanctuary and an effectively desacralized temple. All three, together with the scholarly construct known as Name Theology, are called into question if YHWH is indeed represented as being localized within the temple. OP - 217 NO - Description based upon print version of record. CN - BS1335.52 SN - 9042946261 SN - 9789042946262 SN - 9789042946255 KW - Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) : In the Bible. KW - Bible. : Kings, 1st, VIII : Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) KW - Presence of God. KW - PreĢsence de Dieu. KW - RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament KW - Presence of God KW - Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) in the Bible KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -