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ns064457n8c	Jonathan R. Trotter	The Jerusalem Temple in the Practice and Thought of Diaspora Jews during the Second Temple Period	1904		.txt	text/plain	352	10	27	It is often thought, therefore, that the temple was essentially irrelevant as an institution, even though it maintained a certain symbolic value, for most Diaspora Jews who reoriented their identity toward other universally accessible focal points, such as the Torah. More specifically, in part one, we suggest that most Diaspora Jews voluntarily adopted these practices, which increased in popularity during the Second Temple period, in order to maintain regular contact with and participation in the sacrificial cult.	cache/ns064457n8c.txt	txt/ns064457n8c.txt