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| | Sacrament and Gospel: Water, Wine, Bread, Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The essay analyses the Gospel of Luke, and especially its Gospel within the Gospel (Isaiah 61.1-2, Luke 4.18-19), and concentrates upon the Gospel's use of such crucial and quotidian elements of Mediterranean culture as water, wine, bread, oil for the sacraments of baptism, of marriage, of the eucharist, of anointing, in word and in deed. |
 | | Enmeshed with Luke's accounts of the conception and birth of John to Zachariah and Elizabeth in Judah, near Jerusalem, are those of the conception of Jesus by Mary through the message (Evangel, Gospel) of Gabriel in Nazareth and of his birth to Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. |
 | | In the Gospel of Luke, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and in the Epistle of Barnabas there is the demonstration, the argument, the thesis that the Levitical priesthood, of Moses and Aaron, has somehow failed Israel, as indeed had Aaron himself failed the Israelites with the shaping of the Golden Calf in Exodus. |
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