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Title The book of Leviticus : composition and reception / edited by Rolf Rendtorff and Robert A. Kugler ; with the assistance of Sarah Smith Bartel.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 475 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 0083-5889 ; v. 93. Formation and interpretation of Old Testament literature ; 3
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 93.
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. Formation and interpretation of Old Testament literature ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Leviticus : its literary history and location in Biblical literature / Baruch Levine -- Hr in Leviticus and elsewhere in the Torah / Jacob Milgrom -- Leviticus : after Exodus and before Numbers / Graeme Auld -- The structure of the book of Leviticus in the narrative outline of the priestly Sinai story (Exod 19:1-Num 10:10*) / Andreas Ruwe -- The rhetoric of ritual instruction in Leviticus 1-7 / James W. Watts -- The theology of the sacrifice according to Leviticus 1-7 / Alfred Marx -- The go-away goat / Mary Douglas -- Towards an integrated reading of the dietary laws of Leviticus / Walter J. Houston -- What connects the incest prohibitions with the other prohibitions listed in Leviticus 18 and 20? / Adrian Schenker -- Le sacerdoce / René Péter-Contesse -- The priests in Leviticus-- is the medium the message? / Lester L. Grabbe -- Death and sexuality among priests (Leviticus 21) / Calum Carmichael -- The Old Greek translation of Leviticus / Sarianna Metso and Eugene Ulrich -- Reception of the Hebrew text of Leviticus in the Targums / Martin McNamara -- The reception of Leviticus : Peshitta version / D.J. Lane -- The book of Leviticus in the Dead Sea scrolls / Peter W. Flint -- Rethinking the notion of "scripture" in the Dead Sea scrolls : Leviticus as a test case / Robert A. Kugler -- Jesus, levitical purity, and the development of primitive Christianity / Bruce Chilton -- The rabbinic reception of Leviticus / Hannah Harrington -- ʼny yhṿh : God's self-introduction formula in Leviticus in Midrash Sifra / Gerhard Bodendorfer -- Double time ... double trouble? : gender, sin, and Leviticus 12 / Linda S. Schearing -- "Coming before the Lord" : the exclusion of women from the public domain of the Israelite preistly cult / Judith Romney Wegner.
Summary An examination of the formation, final form, themes and interpretation of the Book of Leviticus. The contributors include Baruch Levine, Jacob Milgrom, Graeme Auld, Alfred Marx, Mary Douglas, Rene Peter-Contesse, Lester Grabbe, Calum Carmichael, Martin McNamara, Robert Kugler and Bruce Chilton.
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Language In English, with one paper in French.
Subject Bible. Leviticus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Leviticus.
Bible. Leviticus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. A.T. Lévitique -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible. Leviticus.
Levitikus.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Rendtorff, Rolf, 1925-2014.
Kugler, Robert A.
Bartel, Sarah Smith.
Other Form: Print version: Book of Leviticus. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 9004126341 (DLC) 2002028203 (OCoLC)50347971
ISBN 1417510544 (electronic book)
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