It is far less common for scholars to provide a detailed analysis of the institutions of ancient societies in which the transmission of oral traditions and the production of texts were embedded, and allow this socio-institutional setting to interpret the thought patterns of a text. The latter is conceptually based on the range of texts presented in the OTP and was designed to update Pseudepigrapha and Modern Research, and thus omits the Apocrypha but concentrates more on texts that fall outside the chronological scope of the JSHRZ. Mussner, Franz. Mark ; cf. Moreover, the term lA-aoxfipiov is related to the verb used throughout the Septuagint for "propitiate," "atone," or "recon- cile," and is itself used to describe the cover of the ark of the covenant, the place where atonement is made on Israel's behalf While a human sacrifice is nowhere prescribed by Torah, in the absence of a functioning sacrificial system as was the case during the period of these martyrs the voluntary self-sacrifice of a righ- teous person is seen to function as would a sin offering and can come to be regarded as a superior one, as in Heb reflecting on the death of Jesus.
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