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Approaching Holiness: Sacred Space in Ezekiel's Temple Vision

… are 1) a vertical approach to sacred space, with the altar as its focus of worship, requiring the worshipper to … the vision. One of the most noticeable features of this altar’s description in Ezekiel 43:13–15 is the explicit …

Approaching Holiness

… are (1) a vertical approach to sacred space, with the altar as its focus of worship, requiring the worshipper’s … the vision. One of the most noticeable features of this altar’s description in Ezekiel 43:13–15 is the explicit …

Elements of Sacrifice in Abraham’s Time and Our Own

… God for the receipt of offerings), (3) the significance of altars, (4) the significance of rapport between sacrificer … in place as Abraham bound Isaac and laid him upon the altar, and remains in place today as time, talents, money, …

The Sanctifying Power of True Ritual Worship

… the law of Moses was instituted. They include the use of altars, ritual prayers, washings and anointings, and the … use of altars. Adam learned the meaning of sacrifice at an altar (see Moses 5:5–8). Noah built an altar on the first …

Temples in the Near East and Israel

… practiced the same form of worship in which they built an altar, offered prayer by calling upon the name of God, and … temple. They have been variously interpreted as incense altars, representations of the tree of life, or as standing …

“That I May Dwell among Them”: Liminality and Ritual in the Tabernacle

… temple items and furniture, such as the brazen sea, the altar, and the movable stands, were also striking because of … menorah, the table of the bread of the presence, and the altar of incense, all three either made of pure gold or …

Disability and Social Justice in Ancient Israelite Culture

… Lord’s commandment regarding the priestly service at the altar, which restricts this activity to those without certain … classes of priests with “defects” from approaching the altar to perform the priestly service: Speak to Aaron and …

The Temple in Biblical Israel

… and the temple cult, describes the centrality of the altar in the worship patterns of the second temple and brings … sacrifice: the blood of the hatta’t on the horns of the altar. [1] The hatta’t must be rendered as “purification (or …

The Great and Last Sacrifice

… burnt offering, where the entire animal was offered on the altar and burnt. In bringing a burnt offering, the individual … Greek προσχεοῦσιν “they pour,” Aramaic ןוקרזי ) around the altar (Leviticus 1:5). [19] The skin went to those …

Replica of the Biblical Tabernacle at BYU

… Thus, Israelites could enter the courtyard up to the altar but never went inside the Tabernacle proper. Levites … cleansing power of Christ’s Atonement, symbolized by the altar’s fire consuming a blood sacrifice and by the laver’s …