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On 1 Enoch and the Rite of Atonement

This post contains more notes on 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch from Dr. Orlov’s class, plus more interesting passages from the text. I will also look at the role of the angel Asa’el (or Azazel) in the Israelite atonement ritual and his possible connection to the Old Testament scapegoat. Random Notes on the Enochic Tradition Dr. Andrei Orlov suggests that 1 [...]
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The Psalms: Hymn Book of the Temple

In the closing lines of my last post, I cited an intriguing statement by Margaret Barker: “The Psalms were the hymn book of the temple, and in them we glimpse something of the ancient liturgy” (M. Barker, Temple Themes in Christian Worship, p. 137). If this is truly the case, then a careful study of the [...]
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The Priestly Suppression of Ancient Truths

  King Josiah’s Reforms Before moving on to more evidence of the suppression of ancient truths, this time at the hands of postexilic priestly editors, I want to mention a couple more good commentaries on the Deuteronomistic reforms, mentioned in my last post. First, I remembered another great article–a book review–by Kevin Christensen, featured in [...]
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Exciting News from the Temple Institute

In the interval while I am writing some follow-up thoughts to my last post, I thought I would share some exciting news with you from the Temple Institute, a Jerusalem organization which has as its goal the building of a temple in Jerusalem. In case you haven’t heard of them, please have a look at [...]
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Jesus, Yahweh, and the Temple: Part II

Representing the Heavenly on Earth: The Temple We now look at the Temple, the place where Heaven is represented on Earth. Eusebius knew that Moses had built the Tabernacle as an imitation of the visions he had be given on Sinai (Exod 25:8, 40): And Moses himself, having first been thought worthy to view the [...]
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