The Epistle of Barnabas, Ch. 7-9

[catholic_heart]

CHAPTER 7

Fasting and the scapegoat

1 Understand therefore, children of gladness, that the good Lord made all things plain beforehand to us, that we should know him to whom we ought to give thanks and praise for everything.

2 If then the Son of God, though he was the Lord and was "destined to judge the living and the dead" suffered in order that

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[martiancyclist]

This reminds me of a few years ago, when I was somewhat interested in Judaism. I found some of the Talmud online, and started reading. Quickly, I decided that the details of who can stick their hand out the door holding what on the Sabbath was spectacularly boring, so I skipped ahead to the part about Yom Kippur.

What I found was quite surprising: a rabbinic declaration -- unintentional, I'm sure -- of Christ's sacrifice superseding that of the scapegoat, somewhat how the writer of Barnabas describes Christ's sacrifice typified in that of the scapegoat.
See the paragraph at the beginning of p. 60, starting with "the rabbis taught..."
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t03/yom09.htm
and consider, 40 years before the Temple was destroyed would be right around AD 30. What happened right around then that could abrogate the effectiveness of the Shadow scapegoat?

[catholic_heart]

That is really, really interesting. Is that definitely referencing the first destruction of the Temple? I didn't read enough of it to be able to tell.

[martiancyclist]

Yes.

[catholic_heart]

By the way, sadly I think the Ghostbusters post has been lost in the shuffle.