We have such a vast number of OT readings in Holy Week, I think i am going to pick one from Maundy Thursday Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, at least as a start.I am also starting slowly as I am tired from digging a path to the church door after over a foot of snow fell yesterday.
Maundy Thursday-Since the last meal of Jesus was at Passover, we have a reading from Exodus 12. One can hear the echoes of priestly concern with the inclusion of Aaron and the careful description of how to prepare the lamb. It is clearly a scared meal, pregnant with meaning. I love how it is a meal for people on the move.this is the first time we encounter the word congregation for the people. If the blood is sacred, does it render the the houses sacred by marking their entrance ways?
Does the bitterness of the herbs reflect on the bitterness of slavery?
I realize that in blood is life according to the bible.I do not grasp how the blood on the doorpost works as a warning,but it certainly gets at the idea of death passing over the people.
Passover marks a new beginning and opens into a new future (see Janzen 81).
Linkages to Jesus as the lamb of god are a matter of the imagination.What links do you make between the Lord's Supper and Passover, if any? In the synoptic gospels, Jesus is working on the image of covenant significantly, no?
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