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This study contains works from a composite of Old Testament scholars on a variety of ritual and priesthood themes. Included are discourses on priestly life, scriptural structure, the legal and literary construction of certain texts, and influences of surrounding cultures. There is a list of abbreviations and two in-depth indexes.

hear the language of angels and respond to it’.1 Stepping into the throne room of God in Jerusalem is equated with an entrance to the supernal temple above. The distinctions between earthly and heavenly temples disappears in the cultic world. It is in contrast to the availability of the divine presence in the temple that we should understand the language of descent in the Psalter. The words of descent in these Psalms are not merely poetic filigree. These words are associated with ritual actions of
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