This is the way YHWH has opened for humanity to dwell in His Presence.” (177) On the Day of Atonement Adam’s eastward expulsion from the garden of Eden was reversed as the high priest, a cultic Adam, ascended westward through the cherubim-woven veil and into the summit of the cultic mountain of God.Īt the heart of the Pentateuch, we find an answer to the question Who shall ascend into the mountain of YHWH? The one able to ascend is the Adam-like high priest, with blood, on the Day of Atonement. Now, keeping in mind the parallels between the garden of Eden and the tabernacle, one may discern readily how the entrance into the holy of holies, ‘the archetypal priestly act,’ comprised a liturgical drama: the annual re-entry into the garden of Eden. “The tabernacle was not merely the earthly house of God, but the way to God– the way of YHWH. Morales unpacks the glories of Leviticus and shows that the central hope of the Pentateuch is fixed upon the Last Adam who ushers His people into the holy presence of God through His perfect atoning sacrifice. The best book I read in 2019 is this worshipful biblical-theological feast. Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? A Biblical Theology of Leviticus / L. There are 36 selections and I thoroughly enjoyed every last one of them.ġ. “A book is a door and on the other side is somewhere else.” (111) I stepped through several literary doors to somewhere else in 2019 and these were my favorite destinations. “There is no substitute for reading,” a wise woman once wrote.
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