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Ascension and Sacrifice: The Return of the Risen Son

Ascension and Sacrifice: The Return of the Risen Son

Moffitt, David M.

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $49.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 14, 2027

ISBN10: 1506479588
ISBN13: 9781506479583
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: Sep 14 2027
Pages: 375
Weight: 0.70
Language: English

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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