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Record W2087911926 · doi:10.3138/tjt.24.suppl_1.143

Sacrament and Sacrifice: Attending to Some Neglected Biblical Threads

2008· article· en· W2087911926 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Alan Watts

Bibliographic record

VenueToronto Journal of Theology · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicBiblical Studies and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSacrificePrayerAltarWorshipWrightTen CommandmentsAestheticsOrder (exchange)TheologyLiteratureArtPhilosophyArt history

Abstract

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Whereas we can connect with the story of the giving of the Commandments, it is very difficult for us to do so with this incident. It reflects the age when the places of worship were noisy and bloody and smelly. The bawling of animals and the cooing of turtledoves were an integral part of life around an altar. When contemporary Christians hear or read the "cleansing of the temple" scene in the gospels, we tend to see it as an effort by Jesus to clean the Temple up and get rid not only of the commercialism but also of all the ugly sacrificial elements. That is an interpretation not justified by the text. When Jesus quoted the words about the Temple being a house of prayer for all nations, he was not referring to quiet prayer murmured in a quiet place. It is true that when Jesus began to throw things around in the Temple that day, he drove out the animals along with the money changers. But he was not trying to get rid of the noise and the smell in order to secure the hushed, hygienic conditions we now require in our churches. He was trying to get rid of the profiteering that had developed around the money changing. And if people like N.T. Wright are correct in saying that Jesus was in part signalling the end of the Temple, it was not on the ground that sacrifice had always been a pointless exercise but that the significance of what had been taking place in the temple was now to be gathered up in Christ..

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.800
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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