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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