Jesus, the Temple, and Early Christian Memory

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 memor