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Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews (Paperback, Revised)
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Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
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Among the problems which Hebrews poses for interpretation, its use
of sacrificial terminology must cause it to seem remote and
obscure. Although the recent work of social anthropologists on the
nature of religious systems has been applied by Old Testament
scholars to the laws and symbols of the Pentateuch this is the
first sustained study of Hebrews to take account of these theories.
Building on the work of such writers as Mary Douglas, Victor
Turner, and Claude Levi-Strauss, Hebrews is approached here as a
'structure of symbols', in which the symbol-system of the Old
Testament covenant is re-presented and transposed. Motifs explored
by the author include sacred time and space; liminality; the
sacrificial function of blood, death, oaths, and blessings; and the
narrative traditions of election and exclusion. Dr Dunnill assesses
Hebrews, not as an argument, but as an act of symbolic
communication expressing the possibility of direct communion with
God.
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