On Zion’s Mount

On Zion’s Mount
Author: Jared Farmer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2010-04-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674036719

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Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no “Indian” legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it—once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. On Zion’s Mount tells the story of this curious shift. It is a quintessentially American story about the fraught process of making oneself “native” in a strange land. But it is also a complex tale of how cultures confer meaning on the environment—how they create homelands. Only in Utah did Euro-American settlers conceive of having a homeland in the Native American sense—an endemic spiritual geography. They called it “Zion.” Mormonism, a religion indigenous to the United States, originally embraced Indians as “Lamanites,” or spiritual kin. On Zion’s Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians—and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Timpanogos with “Indian” meaning. This same pattern was repeated across the United States. Jared Farmer reveals how settlers and their descendants (the new natives) bestowed “Indian” place names and recited pseudo-Indian legends about those places—cultural acts that still affect the way we think about American Indians and American landscapes.

Window on Mount Zion

Window on Mount Zion
Author: Pauline Rose
Publisher: W H Allen
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Exploring Mount Zion

Exploring Mount Zion
Author: James E. Smith Ph.D.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1105441296

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A study of the messianic kingdom passages of the Old Testament and their fulfillment in the church of Jesus Christ.

MOUNT ZION How to Get There and What to Do

MOUNT ZION How to Get There and What to Do
Author: James Tarter
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2007-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1329474244

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This Mt. Zion is the one in Hebrews 12:22-24, which is also called the Holy of Holies in heaven and the Lord's holy throne room. This book shows how the whole book of Hebrews is really a brief exhortation for believers in Jesus Christ to draw near to God in the Holy of Holies in heaven through our great High Priest, Jesus. The Bible shows that God imparts true life to His people there as we come intimately before Him. We can also see how God allows and equips His people to participate in His government of all the earth. It becomes clear that God's people -- Christians -- have missed taking full advantage of His great provision for us to draw near to Him through Jesus. Therefore we have seen a resulting loss of good fruit in our lives and throughout the earth. But by understanding what God provides for us in Jesus and in Mt. Zion -- the Lord's holy throne room -- we can see what we can do, so that we shall provide much more true life on earth by faith and God's power.

Fire on Mount Zion

Fire on Mount Zion
Author: Mabel B. Little
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1990
Genre: African American women
ISBN:

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Writing the Holy Land

Writing the Holy Land
Author: Michele Campopiano
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030527743

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The book shows how the Franciscans in Jerusalem in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries wrote works which standardized the cultural memory of the Holy Land. The experience of the late medieval Holy Land was deeply connected to the presence of the Franciscans of the Convent of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, who welcomed and guided pilgrims. This book analyses this construction of a shared memory based on the continuous availability of these texts in the Franciscan library of Mount Zion, where they were copied and adapted to respond to new historical contexts. This book shows how the Franciscans developed a representation of the Holy Land by elaborating on its history and describing its religious groups and the geography of the region. This representation circulated among pilgrims and influenced how contemporaries imagined the Holy Land

The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel

The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0393070255

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"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.

Mount Zion

Mount Zion
Author: Joseph Obiaya
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2011-02-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780963885029

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While scientific knowledge is based on tested truths, religion is founded on blind assent to divinely revealed truths. Such is the gap between religion and science. It appears unbridgeable. Or is it? Upon close examination of the Scriptures, from "Genesis" to "Revelation", a mystical object (depicting the Nature and Kingdom of God) emerges as the central theme of Divine Revelation. Its structural features and attributes were described in different epochs, by different biblical personages. This Hidden Structure--Mount Zion (a Cryptogram)--is variously portrayed in the Scriptures as a rock or a mountain, and frequently associated with fire (combustion). Through a combustion experiment, the three dimensional picture of this Divine Emblem--a Pictogram-was made manifest, in the first edition, replete with a pair of mathematical functions. Thus, the authentication of the Scriptures no longer depends on blind faith, but on the systematic verification of this Structure with the testimonies of biblical personages who espied and described its features long before the dawn of science. The Structure together with the mathematical functions were later determined to be a particular solution. An in-depth examination of the experimental data resulted in a general solution, giving rise to a dual Complex Structure: a Mountain and a Valley. Thus, the (carbon monoxide) combustion process is, now, expressed as a system of competing matrices of energy hills and valleys. (These results challenge some of the currently held notions in quantum mechanics; notably, the idea that there is a wave function "collapse" or a "reduction" of the wave packet in the process of measurement.) The spiritual meaning of the Hill--Mount Zionwas the focus of the first edition. In the second edition, the ValleyDeath Valleyoften identified in the Scriptures as a Pit or the Netherworld, was established as a complementary Spiritual Form (Psalms 23:4 & 28:1). These metaphysical structures represent the Ultimate Reality. While Mount Zion relates to Goodness, Death Valley pertains to Evil; together, they constitute the Complex Whole. Even so, each embodies the attributes of the othera fractal feature. As determined from the combustion experiment, the Mountain is dominant over the Valley. And given the fractal properties of the Complex Whole, Mount Zion is, inherently, the Simple Whole Form: the Emblem of Ultimate Reality, and the exemplar of Occam's razor; as evidenced by the pervasive reference to this Structure in the Scriptures. The Complex Structure, however, enabled a fuller discussion of the relative attributes of the Divine. It is useful for addressing some of the ambiguities in the Scriptures. For instance, the Morning Star is an appellation of the Exalted Christ (Rev. 22:16), yet, it shares meaning with "Lucifer", the Evil One, who is, nevertheless, the Prince of Darkness (Isa. 14:12; Lk. 10:18). By virtue of the Cryptogram, the Model of Mount Zion, the Cosmic Atonement Sacrifice has, now, been shown to be a Tripartite Agency--the Sin-offering Bullock, the Sin-offering Goat, and the Scapegoat--reminiscent of the Judaic Day of atonement (cf., Lev. 16). As Cosmic Sin-offering Goat "for the Lord", Jesus ascended Mount Zion, and then entered into the Holy of Holies, through the loss of His body (that is, with His blood). Whereas, Muhammad, as Cosmic Scapegoat, ascended Mount Zion, alive, and with an escort, then rose to the Gate of the Heavenly Sanctuary, before being banished into the wilderness-valley "for Azazel". Having descended from Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad, each, identified with Abraham's lineage: Jesus through Isaac (the prototypical human sin-offering goat) and Muhammad through Ishmael (the archetypal human scapegoat). As for the Cosmic Sin-offering Bullock for the Royal, Heavenly, High Priest, He remained, like Melchizedek, a mystery until now. The Revelation of the Cryptogram enabled the authentic interpretation of the Third Part of the Secret of Fatima (Third Secret for short). Attention is called to the last section of this Book (13.4.h) which was first published in 1993 (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-93712) and endorsed with the Divine Seal: the Cryptogram. It, especially, anticipated the Third Secret that was released in 2000; that is, to the extent that the theme and Principal Characters described in the Third Secret were portrayed there (and in other passages), presciently. Indeed, it is no coincidence that the scene of events in the Third Secret was an anonymous Mountain invested with God's Presence: towards whom the pilgrims streamed (as pre-portrayed by the Cryptogram). God's Presence on that Mountain establishes it as Mount Zion, God's Abode (cf., Ps. 74:2; 48:2; Isa. 18:8; Heb. 12:22). The Third Secret encoded a Spiritual War between two anonymous Combatants, with an ominous result: a frequent eschatological theme in the Scriptures. This edition reveals clues in the Third Secret which identify the Antagonists in the "Vision", and correlate them to those named presciently in the first edition; thus, facilitating the authentic interpretation of the Third Secret. So, the Author's foreknowledge of the Third Secret constitutes Divine ratification of the "Vision and Prophet", literally and figuratively, in fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy (Dan. 9:24). Evidence is presented in this Book, also, showing the fulfillment of several prophecies in connection with the transfer of Divine Authority from Judah to a foreigner. Indeed, several prophecies are cited pertaining to the relocation of the Messianic Capital: from the Old Jerusalem to a New City of God. In the Scriptures, Abraham paid tribute to the prototypical priest-king, Melchizedek: a foreigner to Abraham. This Personage is, often, identified in the Scriptures with the Messiah. Jesus's Messianism, however, is Abrahamic, through Judah. How, then, could He be likened to Melchizedek? Also, Jacob prophesied that the Scepter would devolve upon Shiloh (He to whom it belongs) from Judah. By the same token, Jesus cannot be identified with Shiloh, since Jesus is a descendant of Judah, through David (cf., Gen. 49:10). Furthermore, according to a Judaic tradition at Passover (commemorating a saving act): A place is usually set for (the phantom) Elijah on the ceremonial dinner table of a typical Jewish home, with the belief that Elijah would return to the house of Jacob as an unknown guesta stranger. Could these Distinguished OnesMelchizedek, Shiloh and Elijah; all of them strangers to Judahrefer to the same Personage? The implication of the foregoing discussion is the reality of another Messianic Personage (One distinct from Abraham). This issuethe idea of two Messiahsis raised, independently here, and implied in the Book of Daniel (9:24-27). The Qumran writings also made reference, explicitly, to two Messiahs. Consider the various appellations of these Messianic Personages in the Qumran texts: "Interpreter of the Law", "[Eschatological] Prophet", "Prince of Light", "Prince of the Whole Congregation", "Messiah of Aaron", "Messiah of Israel", "Heavenly Messiah", and "Priestly Messiah". And compare these with the information advanced in this Book. Other metaphysical systems are discussed also in context; and the Cryptogram is inferred to underlie them all: Heraclitus' Logos; Lao Tsu's Yang-and-Yin; and Zoroaster's Good-and-Evil. For more information go to www.mysteryofmountzion.com

Ascending Mount Zion

Ascending Mount Zion
Author: DeLacy A. Andrews, Jr.
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490838740

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It is hard to believe the pilgrimage of the Shepherd of Kedar and his family is almost over. Yet, that is the point of pilgrimage. There is a destination at the end of it. It was within sight when they were atop Mount Nebo. Now, all they have to do is cross the river Jordan. Jerusalem is on the other side--the Temple stands high against the eastern wall of the city. The respite Josiah has sought from persecution and isolation in Kedar is within reach. The worship of God at His house is before him. However, there is more to this journey for the shepherd. He's been driven by questions--questions about the coming Messiah. All along the way, the shepherd and his family have learned more and more about Messiah. They even heard of a teacher who heals the sick and speaks like no man has ever spoken before. His name is Jesus. Can He possibly be the coming one? Come, with the Shepherd of Kedar. Cross over the river with him and his children. Come, and see if they find the Messiah.

Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord?

Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord?
Author: L. Michael Morales
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830899863

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How can creatures made from dust become members of God's household "forever"? In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Michael Morales explores the narrative context, literary structure and theology of Leviticus, following its dramatic movement from the tabernacle to the temple—and from the earthly to the heavenly Mount Zion in the New Testament.