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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"high priest"”.
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A Study of the History of the Office of High Priest
This study is an examination of the office of high priest from its beginning with Adam as the first and down through the restoration of the Church in the last days. This study revealed that the office of high priest was the only priesthood office that was held from the time of Adam until the …
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"Clothes Make the (One Like a Son of) Man": Dress Imagery in Revelation 1 as an Indicator of High Priestly Status
… Testament that explicitly describes Jesus as a high priest. The purpose of this dissertation is to ascertain whether or not the book of Revelation, in particular, in John's description of the "one like a son of man" in his inaugural vision (1:12-16), implicitly presents Jesus as having a high …
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Forget Jerusalem: William Faulkner's Hyperreal Novel
… writers: master novelist William Faulkner, and high priest of Postmodernism, Jean Baudrillard. Specifically, this paper examines Faulkner's eleventh novel—the oft-neglected If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem—as a proto-postmodern text which, when examined by the light of Baudrillard's theory of …
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Postcolonial Criticism and the Gospel of Mark: An Assessment
… authority over Jewish authorities such as the High Priest and the Pharisees. The gospel of Mark represents a form of resistant literature as the portrayal of Jesus is not an attempt to abolish the structure of "Empire," but to replace the emperor with the true Lord. Postcolonial criticism is …
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Purging God's People and Place: Levitical Sacrifice as a Prolegomenon to Hebrews
… appropriation of the Day of Atonement, the high priest as sacrificial officiant, daily sacrifices, the inauguration of covenant and cult, and the twofold conception of purifying God's people and place. Chapter 2 offers a portrait of Levitical sacrifice, first examining its creational …
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The characterization of Aaron : threshold encounters in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.
… a reader-constructed portrait of Aaron, the high priest of the ancient Israelite people. The portrait was developed according to the literary theory which proposes that a narrative character is an interdividual defined by the other characters with whom he interacts at the moment of their …
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Haima in Hebrews
… to encompass the atoning work of Christ, who as High Priest shed His blood vicariously to eradicate sin, cleanse the conscience, and save humankind.</p>
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The restoration theme in the Book of Revelation: From creation to new creation
… cf. 2 Cor 5:17). John describes Christ as the high priest and King of kings who accomplishes the priestly and kingly role of both Israel and Adam. Second, this dissertation explores the tension between the already restored church in Christ's kingdom and the future consummation of the church as …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… out by Jewish translators sent by Jerusalem’s High Priest. Culturally, the Letter is a striking text. It frequently asserts the pre-eminence of the Biblical god and its prophet, Moses, alongside its recurrent and unapologetic use of Greek literary conventions and philosophy. In light of this …
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Contemplate the Lord and live justly': Establishing the authorial intent behind The Letter of Aristeas
… out by Jewish translators sent by Jerusalem’s High Priest. Culturally, the Letter is a striking text. It frequently asserts the pre-eminence of the Biblical god and its prophet, Moses, alongside its recurrent and unapologetic use of Greek literary conventions and philosophy. In light of this …
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Creation and Christ. An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… commonly discussed theme in the Epistle, the high priesthood of Christ. However, as I began to look at Hebrews more closely, I saw that the term high priest is not so common in the first four chapters of Hebrews, occurring only four times with a further reference to sacrifice in 1:3. Rather …
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The message of the prophet Haggai : a socio-political approach
… scion Zerubbabel together with Jehozadak the high priest in exile, to Jerusalem. On the basis of Trito-Isaiah a number of biblical scholars have identified two main groups who may be classified as being either pro-Isaiah or pro-Ezekiel both of whom looked forward to gaining control of the …
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The sacrificial Christology of Hebrews : a Jewish Christian contribution to the modern debate about the Person of Christ
… and strongly Hellenistic text, which displays a high incarnational Christology very similar to, if not as fully developed as, that expressed in the Fourth Gospel. These scholarly assumptions have resulted in Hebrews remaining peripheral to the modem debate about the person of Christ, an approach …
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"The Anchor of the Soul that Enters Within the Veil": the Ascension of the "Son" in the Letter to the Hebrews
… (also 4:14-16); 6:19-20, with his appointment as high priest; 9:11-14, 24 and 10:19-22, with the inauguration of the new covenant. All of these events form part of Jesus’ exaltation at the right hand of God (1:3, 13; 8:1; 10:12; 12:2) and contribute to his identity as “Son.”</p> <p>These …