The Tabernacle Pre-Figured

Cosmic Mountain Ideology in Genesis and Exodus

By (author) L.M. Morales

Extent: 359 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Series: Biblical Tools and Studies

Series volume number: 15

Language: English

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ISBN: 9789042958180

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In the ancient Near East, where cosmos and cult wereof a piece, temples were the architectural embodiment of the cosmic mountain.This monograph explores how the mountain narratives of the Hebrew Biblecanonically preceding the establishment of the tabernacle cultus may thereforeserve to prefigure that cultus. Examining the creation, deluge, and exodusaccounts in light of cosmic mountain ideology, the study develops a cosmogonicpattern of being delivered through the waters to the mountain of God forworship. As a symbol for approaching the divine Presence, this pattern isultimately cultic, and includes a gate liturgy running as an undercurrentthrough each narrative. Moses alone, for example, is permitted ascent to thesummit of Sinai, a role later mimicked by the high priest’s annual entrance intothe holy of holies. From Adam’s descent of the holy mountain to the highpriest’s “ascent” of the architectural mountain of God, <i>TheTabernacle Pre-Figured</i> makes a compelling case that to dwellin the divine Presence via the tabernacle cultus presents a mediated return tothe original <i>telos</i> of the cosmos.

By (author) L.M. Morales

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