Monday, March 18, 2013

Sabbath and Sanctuary is Coming Soon!!!

My monograph, The Sabbath and the Sanctuary:  Access to God in the Letter to the Hebrews and Its Priestly Context, is now officially being promoted in the Mohr Siebeck catalogue

Here is the info:

Jared C. Calaway

The Sabbath and the Sanctuary

Access to God in the Letter to the Hebrews and its Priestly Context

Who can enter the sacred and heavenly presence of God? And how? Various ancient Jewish and emergent Christian groups disputed these questions in the first century CE. Jared C. Calaway states that the Letter to the Hebrews joined this debate by engaging and countering priestly frameworks of sacred access that aligned the Sabbath with the sanctuary. From the Hebrew Bible through late Second Temple Judaism, the sanctity of the sanctuary could be experienced through the Sabbath, sacred space through sacred time. In its sweeping vistas of Sabbath rest and the heavenly homeland, the heavenly sanctuary and the coming age, and the heavenly priesthood, Hebrews reworked this priestly framework, showing familiarity with its traditional and contemporary forms, such as the "Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice". In a manner resembling postwar layers of the emergent Christian tradition, instead of entering God’s sacred and heavenly Presence through the weekly Sabbath, one could only experience the heavenly realities of the Sabbath and the sanctuary through faithfulness and obedience to Jesus, the faithful and obedient heavenly high priest who purifies, sanctifies, and perfects.
The catalogue says it should be out in May 2013, and I am working hard to make sure it is as close to that as possible!  Order it for all of your libraries!

1 comment:

Ken Schenck said...

Many congratulations Jared... when I get the "pocket change" to buy it, I hope to read through it!