Abstract Pidion Haben, the redemption of the firstborn. Theological-political interpretations of a Mitzvah The paper deals with the mitzwà issued by Shemot/Exodus 13: 13, which imposes the consecration and the ransom of every, human and animal, first-born. This commandment, called pid

Abstract The temple and the Messiah. The theo-political eschatology of rabbinic Judaism This paper discusses aspects of eschatological and halakhic thought linked to the themes of the temple and messianic redemption developed by Rabbinical Judaism, and proposes that an understanding o

Abstract Temple, Jerusalem, city of shelter. The geography of sacred space transformed into a religion without place. When we consider the history of the temple in Jerusalem, we realise that its holiness became a spatial template for other religious institutions, allowing them, too, t