Leviticus: A Commentary.

The Christian Century | October 8, 1997| | Copyright

By Erhard S. Gerstenberger. Westminster John Knox, 450 pp., $42.00.

For Jewish Homileticians, early spring is not a good time. According to the rabbinic cycle of Torah readings, this is when we come down from the great heights of Genesis and Exodus, with their breathtaking perspectives and sweeping visions, and enter the flat and seemingly arid plain of Leviticus. As my Protestant friends sympathetically remind me, Leviticus simply "does not preach."

And yet Leviticus is central, literally and figuratively, to what the Pentateuch is all about. The ...

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