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Ascension and Sacrifice

The Return of the Risen Son

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  • 375 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press
  • 15.9 x 23.5 cm

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Many modern interpreters assume that Levitical sacrifice involves slaughtering animals on altars, focuses on what offerers give up, and involves abstract notions of moral satisfaction. These ideas do not align with the cultural knowledge of Second Temple Jews who would know that no animals are killed on any altars in Levitical sacrifice. Moreover, for them the conceptual center of sacrifice rested on giving a gift to God, not on what an offerer gives up. The gift moves from an offerer, to a priest, to an altar, and so into God's presence as part of the real dynamics of covenantal relationship. When these and other points are grasped, the early Christian confession of the return of the risen Son to his heavenly Father can be meaningfully understood in terms of the Son's offering of himself as a sacrifice to his Father. This book looks in detail at the ways that Second Temple Jews could have imagined Levitical sacrifice in order to then consider how Jesus's earliest followers could have imagined Jesus as a sacrifice offered to God.
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  • Title

    Ascension and Sacrifice

  • Author

    David M. Moffitt

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press

  • Published

    September 2027

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    375

  • Dimensions

    15.9 x 23.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506479583

  • ISBN-10

    1506479588

  • Eden Code

    7212269

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