pt. 1. Studies in the history of sacred time and space. Torah from Zion: Isaiah's temple vision (Isaiah 2:1-4) / Baruch J. Schwartz. -- Transformations of space and time: Nathan's oracle and David's prayer in 1 Chronicles 17 / Pancratius C. Beentjes. -- Holy place and Hannah's prayer: a comparison of LAB 50-51 and Luke 2:22-39 à Propos 1 Samuel 1-2 / Bart J. Koet. -- The lasting sanctity of Bethesda / Martien Parmentier. -- Ir Ha-Miqdash and its meaning in the Temple Scroll / Lawrence H. Schiffman. -- pt. 2. Postbiblical period. Judaism. Holiness and mysticism at Sinai according to the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael / Lieve Teugels. -- Jerusalem and the Temple in the Tannaitic Literature of the first generation after the destruction of the Temple / Shmuel Safrai. -- 'They direct their hearts to Jerusalem': references to Jerusalem and Temple in Mishnah and Tosefta Berakhot / Alberdina Houtman. -- 'To stand -- perhaps to sit': sitting and standing in the Azarah in the Second Temple period / Joshua Schwartz. Christianity. The institutionalization of the cult of saints in Christian society / Ze'ev Safrai. -- Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem: Jerome and the holy places of Palestine / Hillel Isaac Newman. -- Judaism and Christianity. Moses' rod in Zipporah's garden / Marcel Poorthuis. -- Liturgical time and space in early Christianity in light of their Jewish background / Gerard Rouwhorst. -- Holy city and Holy land as viewed by Jews and Christians in the Byzantine period: a conceptual approach to sacred space / Aaron Demsky. -- pt. 3. Modern period. Post-modern pilgrimage: Christian ritual between liturgy and 'topolatry' / Paul Post. -- The sanctity of Mount Herzl and independence day in Israel's civil religion / Ophir Yarden. -- A Rachel for everyone: the Kinneret cemetery as a site of civil pilgrimage / Amos Ron.