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This examination of Gentile and Jewish religious and literary descriptions of sacrificial and expulsion rituals provides a useful background to the study of Paul's metaphorical use of sacrifice and scapegoat to characterize the significance of the death of Jesus. In addition to offering an overview of Paul's use of cultic metaphors and an assessment of Paul's synthesis of martyrology and cultic metaphor, this work shows how Paul uses still other metaphors (acquittal, reconciliation, adoption) to picture the beneficial after-effects of that death. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)Finlan, Stephen is the author of 'Background And Contents Of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors ', published 2004 under ISBN 9789004137639 and ISBN 9004137637.
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