The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
40. Does the Hebrew Bible Apply Holiness to Space or to Time?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Philippe Guillaume [+]
University of Berne
Philippe Guillaume is Lecturer at the University of Berne. His latest publications are A History of Biblical Israel co-authored with Ernst Axel Knauf (Equinox, 2016) and Deuteronomy in the Making, Studies in the Production of Debarim, edited with Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi and Kåre Berge (De Gruyter, 2021).
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Despite the amount of space granted to Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible—though not in the Torah—we never find that God that sanctifies space. Instead, the Bible sanctifies time.