title: You Are a Priest Forever: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)
author:  Eric F. Mason 
description: <i>...a valuable contribution to the study of both Hebrews and Second Temple messianism.</i><br /><br />Jane Heath, University of Durham <i>Expository Times</i> 126(8), 2015
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  APOSTATE PRIEST
  
  
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  Wanda Ann Thomas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2018 by Wanda Ann Thomas
  
  
  Published by Wanda Ann Thomas. All rights reserved. This eBook is licensed for
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  permission of the author. This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents
  and dialogues in this book are of the author’s imagination and are not to be
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  dead, is completely coincidental.
  
  
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  ## Chapter 1
  
  
  ### Jerusalem 30 BC
  
  
  
  
  
  Eight years had elapsed since James Onias walked the immaculate streets of
  Jerusalem. The white-walled sepulcher of the Temple loomed ahead. The stink of
  the burnt offering assaulted his nose. Worshipers fresh from ritual baths
  swarmed out of gates pres