This panel will investigate how different accounts of cultic practices and sacrificial systems affected early Christian worship. Specifically, it will address how first-century Jewish Christians interpreted Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension in light of their understanding of the sacrificial system. The goals of this investigation will be to examine how these understandings may have affected early views on atonement(s) in addition to impacting Christian practices. Each panelist will focus on one of two areas: 1) the reception of sacrificial texts in and around second-temple Judaism broadly or 2) the implementation of this reception in early Christianity more specifically.Chair: Cody Warta (University of St Andrews)Speakers:David Moffitt (University of St Andrews), Ransom Redivivus? Jesus’s Death and Sacrifices to the Chthonic GodsScott Shauf (Gardner-Webb University), Sacrifice as the Lynchpin of Early Christian IdentityDrew T. Everhart (University of St Andrews), Humanity Ascended: Reimagining Human Nature in Light of Christ’s Atoning Work in HebrewsRoy Gane (Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University), Old Testament Sacrifice as Background to Worship in the New Testament