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A Worldwide Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Not to result in a religious conversion, but to hearing the “teaching” that goes forth from Zion in the name of the God who is worshipped there. The universal is to be found in the particular.

By Bernhard W. Anderson

Most people are familiar with the biblical vision of the coming of a time when nations will “beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning hooks” and prepare for war no longer. The poem is found in slightly different versions in both the Book of Micah (4:1–5) and the Book of Isaiah (2:2–5). It may have been an independent piece which editors of both prophetic books used for their own purposes. In this vision, the hill on which the Temple of Jerusalem stands is portrayed as the highest of all mountains of the earth. As though drawn by […]

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Endnotes

1.

R.E. Clements, The New Century Bible Commentary Isaiah 1–39 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987), p. 40.

2.

Richard J. Clifford, The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament, Harvard Semitic Museum 4 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1972).

3.

Emil Fackenheim, God’s Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical Reflections (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1970).