Alternate assignment: Temple Tantrum

Here I am in front of the most contested real estate you can imagine: the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

I often say that it's too bad we are sometimes more concerned with real estate than our real ESTATE.

Special note: If you'd rather do the below, it can replace the written assignment #2 (if you write a one pge paper) or written assignment #3 (if you write 2-3 pages):

Discuss the background, Old Testament Scriptures quoted, and meanings of Jesus' "temple tantrum," incorporating insights from class notes, and any of the following linked articles.

Some of you got such a kick out of my story of eating hamburgers in a restaurant next to the Temple Mount. The story is told here, and here's a pic of the delightful
restaurant.. As you can see below, it's not the only non-kosher restaurant in Israel!


Anyway..on an (equally) serious note..








For the temple tantrum paper, explore:

• Temple Tantrum: Surprising Lessons From the Text
• "Breaking Down Walls" by Ray Van Der Laan
  
• Capon and Bruggeman: Missionally Marginal/Post Temple Tantrum
• "David's City and Temple Mount" by Ray Van Der Laan
  
• Temple Tantrum: poem

Here is actual photo of the sign posted on the "soreq" part of the barricade/dividing wall, discovered in 1871, which said:

"NO FOREIGNER
IS TO GO BEYOND THE BALUSTRADE
AND THE PLAZA OF THE TEMPLE ZONE
WHOEVER IS CAUGHT DOING SO
WILL HAVE HIMSELF TO BLAME
FOR HIS DEATH
WHICH WILL FOLLOW

"