makes in Christ Jesus, “the mediator of a new covenant …” (Heb 12:24). In Hebrews, the movement from Sinai to Zion is the passage from slavery to sin on the one hand to freedom in Christ on the other. The Transfiguration gives the disciples a foretaste of Christ’s future glory. In the entry on mountains in the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery the writer reflects, “As symbols, they [i.e., mountains in the Bible] declare the nature of God.”28 In the Transfiguration, the mountain-top experience announces