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Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord?: A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus is unavailable, but you can change that!

In many ways, this is the fundamental question of Old Testament Israel’s cult—and, indeed, of life itself. How can creatures made from dust become members of God’s household “forever”? The question of ascending God’s mountain to his house was likely recited by pilgrims on approaching the temple on Mount Zion during the annual festivals. This entrance liturgy runs as an undercurrent throughout the...

ordained to be indefectibly present to his people through its legitimate cult’.51 Keeping in mind that when reading ‘linearly’ one must be ever mindful that both halves of a work inform and are informed by the centre, focusing attention upon the centre and deriving meaning from it will help us to read the Pentateuch, as it were, with ‘cultic glasses’. Like moving inwardly along the rings of a target, this chapter has surveyed the structure of the Pentateuch concentrically, moving from
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