Destroy This Temple

Abstract

The work under review is an excerpt of a. dissertation submitted by the' author to the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome for the degree of Doctorate in Theology. The whole study aims at bringing out the real meaning and significance of the Temple-Legion in In. 2:19: "Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up". According. to the author, the Temple Logion is a "pointer to the very meaning and importance of Jesus' life and activity in confrontation with the Jewish religion" (p. 1) and "a summary statement of the meaning and importance of the whole life and teaching of Jesus for the Jew, on the one hand, and for the Christians, on the other" (p. 91).