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Deuteronomy 12 restricts sacrifices to the place God chooses for Israel. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this requirement in the command to sacrifice on a mountain God will reveal, placing Abraham within the same rules as his descendants.
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Deuteronomy 12:14
Hebrew Bible
11 Then you must come to the place the Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing everything I am commanding you—your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, and all your choice votive offerings that you devote to him. 12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you). 13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish, 14 for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas—there you may do everything I am commanding you.
Apocalypse of Abraham 9:8
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
7 But abstain from every form of food that proceeds out of the fire, and from the drinking of wine, and from anointing (yourself) with oil, forty days, 8 and then set forth for me the sacrifice which I have commanded you, in the place which I will show you, on a high mountain, 9 and there I will show you the ages which have been created and established, made and renewed, by my Word, 10 and I will make known to you what shall come to pass in them on those who have done evil and (practised) righteousness in the generation of men.
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Notes and References
“... Although Gen 15 says nothing about where Abraham lays the cut animal pieces, the author of
the Apocalypse of Abraham is careful to note its location – at Horeb. What we see in the
Apocalypse of Abraham is a correction on this point according to Deuteronomistic sensibilities:
first, Abraham is commanded to sacrifice in the place where God will show him, which is
reminiscent of the oft-repeated phrase in Deuteronomy that the Israelites should sacrifice in “the
place that God shall choose” (e.g., Deut 12:14). And when the location is specified, it is at
Horeb, the name for Mt. Sinai in Deuteronomy. ...”
Paulsen-Reed, Amy Elizabeth
The Origins of the Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. 179) Harvard Divinity School, 2016
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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