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God’s Mediators: A Biblical Theology of Priesthood is unavailable, but you can change that!

There are many investigations of the Old Testament priests and the New Testament’s appropriation of such imagery for Jesus Christ. There are also studies of Israel’s corporate priesthood and what this means for the priesthood of God’s new covenant people. However, such studies are less frequently connected with each other: key interrelations are missed, and key questions are not addressed. In...

mediation. But they are much more than that. At the least, we find that the priest himself is a representative of each party as he speaks on behalf of one to the other. The priest is more an authorized and recognized ambassador than a background courier. The image comes to a head in the Greek term for ‘mediator’ (mesitēs; there is not much in the way of a Hebrew equivalent). It moves into the realm of reconciliation and assurances and guarantees. One flagship lexicon (BDAG, 634) gives as its primary
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