Review article

Th e Sabbath in the Pentateuch

Gerhard F. Hasel ; Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA

Abstract

No other part of the Bible has the breadth, depth, and height of ideas, themes, and motifs pertaining to the Sabbath as does the Pentateuch. It remains the major source for information on the origin, institution, purpose, and meaning of the seventh-day Sabbath. Th e Sabbath is grounded in Creation and linked with redemption. It is an agent of rest from work and confronts man’s religious and social relationship. It is a perpetual sign and everlasting covenant. It relates to the meaning of time. Its nature is universal and it serves all mankind. It is concerned with worship as well as with joy and satisfaction. Th e themes of Creation, Sabbath, redemption, and sanctifi cation are inseparably linked together, and with the Sabbath’s covenant aspect they reach into the eschatological future.
It will be the purpose of this article fi rst to survey the quest for Sabbath origins and then to investigate the Creation Sabbath and the Sabbath before Sinai, at Sinai, and after Sinai. Finally, the topics of the Sabbath as sign and covenant will conclude this study of the Sabbath in the Pentateuch.

Keywords

Sabbath; Pentateuch; Sinai; Creation; Covenant

Hrčak ID:

123181

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/123181

Publication date:

16.11.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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