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f. Explaining precisely what is the tie between theology and worship, Phil. 2.5-11

g. Historical outline of theology through detailed study of worship

5. The liturgical calendar (the story of God in the service of the Church)

a. Judaism: A festival which was to endure needed written authentication. Passover, the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) and Tabernacles were established in the liturgical calendar by the Law of Moses (Deut. 16.1–17); Mordecai added the Feast of Purim. He decreed both the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar to be kept each year as a time of thanksgiving for deliverance from the threat of extinction, which had parallels with salvation from the pharaoh at the Exodus (Ps. 106.10; Luke 1.71). Passover and Purim both speak of sorrow turned to joy and mourning to celebration (D. Carson, New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition [electronic edition of the 4th ed.] Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1997).

(1) Elaborate calendar of holy days in Judaism (similar in some respects to the Catholic calendar)

(2) One weekly (Sabbath), one monthly (the new moon)

(3) Leviticus 23 as biblical description of some of the key festivals and feasts

(4) All days of festival included feasts except the Day of Atonement (a fast)

(5) Feast of Purim added later, along with Dedication (cf. John 10.22)

(6) Worship as ritual drama (remembrance and re-enactment)