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Jon D. Levenson · 1985
A scholarly study exploring the theological significance of Mount Sinai and Mount Zion in the Hebrew Bible, examining how these mountains function as archetypes for understanding God's relationship with Israel through covenant, law, and temple worship.
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What this book knows
Sinai and Zion are not competing traditions but two interlocking poles of a single covenantal world, law and sanctuary holding Israel together.
obedience-and-authority
The voice of Sinai is heard on Zion. The critique of cult here assumes the shape of a rîb.
SZEI-RC-0521 Kgs 8:25 is the vengeance of Moses upon David, of the 'kingdom of priests' upon the hubris of the political state.
SZEI-RC-100faith-and-doubt
How the idea of God as exclusive suzerain was born remains cloaked in mystery. Historians may never pierce that cloak.
SZEI-RC-091Can it not be the case that the choice lies between belief in Sinai and a liberal humanism substituting man's conscience for God's word?
SZEI-RC-063belonging
Critical scholarship has not shaken the view that Torah is something deadening, a bearer of curse and a temporary measure.
SZEI-RC-059A firm line between the traditions of Sinai and those of Zion cannot be drawn; geographical separation is not only unnecessary, but artificial.
SZEI-RC-110Illuminates
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