TY - BOOK ID - 101340165 TI - Praying to the Temple : Divine presence in Solomon's prayer AU - Wilson, Ian AU - Peeters PY - 2022 SN - 9789042946255 9042946253 9780042946262 9042946261 PB - Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters DB - UniCat KW - Presence of God KW - 222.6 KW - 222.6 Livres de Samuel. Les Rois. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - 222.6 Samuelboeken. Boeken der koningen. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - Livres de Samuel. Les Rois. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - Samuelboeken. Boeken der koningen. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias KW - God KW - Schechinah KW - Shechina KW - Shechinah KW - Shekhinah KW - Shekina KW - Shekinah KW - Presence KW - Omnipresence KW - Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) KW - In the Bible. KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101340165 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. ER -