A Goat For Azazel

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This book explores the influence of the Day of Atonement on the Gospels. Hans M. Moscicke investigates how the gospel writers utilized the Yom Kippur traditions of the Second Temple period to craft Christological goat typologies and examines how scapegoat and Azazel traditions in first-century Judaism shaped the theology of the Gospels.

LUST AND REDEMPTION, SIN AND SALVATION—THE EPIC NOVEL OF A YOUNG ROMAN IN THE FLESHPOTS OF AN ANCIENT WORLD. HE SAW HIS MOTHER BURNED AT THE STAKE This soul-searching experience changed an innocent young Roman into a pleasure-seeking hedonist lusting for flesh. Yet, there was something about the new religion that obsessed him. What was it that made Christian martyrs go to their deaths with a smile on their lips?... Christ had preached love; only through love could man be re-born. So it was that Damon set out in search of the answers to puzzling riddles about love and lust, the spirit and the flesh, barbarian pantheism and gentle Christianity... The latest in Vardis Fisher’s TESTAMENT OF MAN series. ‘The most ambitious project in present-day fiction!’—The New York Herald Tribune DAMON SOUGHT LOVE —from Levilla, the beautiful young Christian, who withheld her ripe body from him; —from Murdia, the sensualist, who knew how to arouse men with passionate abandon; —from Ayla, the voluptuous dancing girl, whose cloying movements invited a strange relationship; —from the father he never knew; from the religion he yearned to believe in... Here is the fascinating odyssey of a young Roman who sated himself in the dissolute world of the First Century...until he finally found the goal of his quest for love in a new and sublime experience.

The Bible is mysterious, surprising—and often deeply misunderstood. Dr. Michael Heiser, an expert in the ancient near east and author of the best selling The Unseen Realm, explores the most unusual, interesting, and least understood parts of the Bible and offers insights that will inspire, inform, and surprise you on every page. Dr. Heiser has helped to remind the church of the supernatural worldview of the Bible. In The Bible Unfiltered, you will see his methods and expertise applied to dozens of specific passages and topics. Gleaned from his years working as Faithlife's scholar-in-residence, this is some of the very best of Dr. Heiser's work.

"In this work, Hans M. Moscicke investigates the influence of the Day of Atonement on Matthew's passion narrative. He argues that Matthew portrays Jesus as both goats of the Leviticus 16 ritual in his Barabbas episode (Matt 27:15-26), Roman-abuse scene (Matt 27:27-31), and death-resurrection narrative (Matt 27:50-54)." --back cover

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the Holiest Feast day of the year for the Hebrew Israelites. It is a day of repentance and reflection. According to the Book of Leviticus, on this day, we were to make sacrifices unto ELOHIM for our sins. This book describes in detail the steps that were to be done for our Atonement; it includes every part of the process; from the garments that the priest wore; to the preparation of the goats that were to be sacrificed. You will discover what these goats represented and what the other animal's sacrifice meant. You will learn what "scapegoat" means in Hebrew and why it is called "Azazel."The goal is to dissect and explain the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, down to its smallest detail, Please find out about this elusive and mysterious sacrifice commanded by our ELOHIM.

Written by an international team of scholars and edited by David W. Baker and Gordon J. Wenham, this series expounds the books of the Old Testament in a scholarly manner accessible to non-experts and shows the relevance of the Old Testament to modern read