Spatial images in biblical texts : Exodus

Debevec, Leon (author)

The paper discusses the spatial images of Moses’ ritual practices in a block of biblical texts describing his work between God’s invitation and the Sinai Covenant. Three aspects guided the analysis of the texts: Moses’ relationship with Transcendence, the ritual and dramaturgical characteristics of this relationship, and the physiognomy of the spatial consequences of their interaction. Comparison of the findings with the archetypal architectural matrix of the sacral shows the continuity of the tradition of the Old Testament patriarchs in the spatial arrangements of human communication with God. The latter receives the first complex reinterpretation in the Sinai Covenant in terms of spatial as well as ritual characteristics. Due to its archetypal richness and roundness, it has all the characteristics of a prototype of an Old Testament Jewish sanctuary.

• Language: English
• Keywords: architecture, sacral complex, Jewish sanctuary, archetype, Moses, Exodus
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 655-668
• Numbering: Letn. 81, [št.] 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163967
• UDC: 27-242.6:726
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2021/03/Debevec
• COBISS.SI-ID: 90711811
• Publication date in RUL: 15.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik : glasilo Teološke fakultete v Ljubljani
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Teološka fakulteta
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Prostorske podobe v bibličnih besedilih : eksodus

Abstract

Prispevek obravnava prostorske podobe obrednih Mojzesovih praks v bloku svetopisemskih besedilih, ki opisujejo njegovo delovanje med božjim povabilom in sinajsko zavezo. Obravnavo besedilso usmerjali trije vidiki: Mojzesov odnos s transcendenco, obredne in dramaturške karakteristike tega odnosa in fiziognomija prostorskih konsekvenc njune interakcije. Soočenje ugotovitev z arhitekturno arhetipsko matrico sakralnega pokaže kontinuiteto tradicije očakov v prostorskih ureditvah človekove komunikacije z Bogom. Ta komunikacija dobi v sinajski zavezi prvo, tako po prostorskih kakor tudi po obrednih karakteristikah, kompleksno reinterpretacijo. Zaradi njenega arhetipskega bogastva in zaokroženosti ima vse značilnosti prototipa starozaveznega judovskega svetiščnega kompleksa.

• Keywords: arhitektura, sakralni kompleks, judovsko svetišče, arhetip, Mojzes, eksodus