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Zion Symbolism in Hebrews: Hebrews 12:18–24 as a Hermeneutical Key to the Epistle is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book challenges the general tendency of understanding the Epistle to the Hebrews against a Hellenistic background and suggests that the Epistle should be understood in the light of the Jewish apocalyptic tradition. The author especially argues for the importance of the theological symbolism of Sinai and Zion (Heb. 12:18–24) as it provides the Epistle’s theological background as well as the...

In the early level of tradition, the reader is encouraged to identify the mountain and God as a metaphorical relationship of resemblance. However that metaphor gives way to a metonymic relationship of contiguity in the subsequent deuteronomistic and priestly redaction. The result of this change in the relationship between the mountain and God is that instead of representing an identification with God, the mountain comes to symbolize a point of contact between God in heaven and the worshipping community
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