The Sabbath and the sanctuary
Subtitle: access to God in the Letter to the Hebrews and its priestly context
By: Jared C. Calaway
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 349; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 349.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9783161523656
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Heiligtum; Bible; Priester; Christentum; Criticism, interpretation; Bibel; Sabbat; Judentum
Description: "Who can enter the sacred and heavenly presence of God? And how? Jared C. Calaway argues that the Letter to the Hebrews joined an ongoing debate between ancient Jewish and emergent Christian groups by engaging and countering priestly frameworks of sacred access that aligned the Sabbath with the sanctuary."--The jacket.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, New York, 2010 under title: Heavenly Sabbath, heavenly sanctuary : the transformation of priestly sacred space and sacred time in the Songs of the Sabbath sacrifice and the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : accessing God through the intersections of sacred space and sacred time in the Letter to the Hebrews and its priestly context; title: The priestly inheritance of Hebrews : aligning the Sabbath and the sanctuary in the Hebrew Bible; title: Entering God's Sabbath rest and the heavenly homeland in the Letter to the Hebrews; title: Resituating Moses' "pattern" of the tabernacle : God's house, the sanctuary, and the heavenly tent in the Letter to the Hebrews; title: Rituals of access : the high priest(s) of the heavenly day of atonement in the Letter to the Hebrews; title: Conclusions : the intersection of the Sabbath and the sanctuary in Hebrews and its priestly social contexts.