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Leviticus
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Leviticus. The third book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. The Eng. title follows the Gk. and Lat. versions, the Heb. title
Vayyiqra (‘and he called’) being the first word of the text. The book is essentially a manual for priests (the
tannaim called it
Torat Kohanim, ‘Guidance for Priests’). In Judaism, Leviticus is, traditionally, the first book to be taught to school-children (Lev. R. 7. 3).
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Leviticus: A Commentary.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/8/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...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...
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Leviticus
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Leviticus. NCB. By Philip J. Budd. Grand Rapids...xxiii + 395 pp., $26.00 paper. Leviticus. OTL. By Erhard S. Gerstenberger...42.00. Two recent treatments of Leviticus by P. Budd and E. Gerstenberger interpret...
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IN LEVITICUS, MORAL LAWS VS. CEREMONIAL LAWS HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 9/19/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Hancock Jr.'s concerning what the Bible says in Leviticus ("What else Leviticus says," Aug. 27). There is an old saying that...share the rest of the story. His argument is that Leviticus is no longer applicable in today's society because...
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Reading Leviticus: A Conversation with Mary Douglas
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...JOHN F. A. SAWYER (ed.), Reading Leviticus: A Conversation with Mary Douglas...group of scholars to consider the Book of Leviticus in light of the anthropological and literary...see M. Douglas, "Poetic Structure in Leviticus," Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies...
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Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...JAMES W. WATTS, Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture (Cambridge...important study that subsequent research on Leviticus and the development of the biblical canon...presents a detailed rhetorical analysis of Leviticus 1-16. Guiding his inquiry is this...
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Leviticus as literature.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; DOUGLAS, MARY. Leviticus as literature. xviii, 280 pp...Seeing the names 'Mary Douglas' and 'Leviticus' (the third book of the Jewish Torah...chapter entitled 'The abominations of Leviticus' served Purity and danger as an exemplary...
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Louis Leviticus: fighting for the survival of tractor testing. (former head of the Nebraska Tractor Testing Laboratory)
Magazine article from: Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World; 5/1/1998; 700+ words
; Louis Leviticus may have retired from the Nebraska Tractor...implement dealers in the state, says Leviticus. Nebraska is the only state in the union...our tests as a marketing tool," says Leviticus. "And lots of farmers in other states...
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Louis Leviticus: Fighting for the survival of tractor testing
Magazine article from: Resource; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Louis Leviticus may have retired from the Nebraska Tractor...implement dealers in the state. says Leviticus. Nebraska is the only state in the union...our tests as a marketing too." says Leviticus. "And lots of farmers in other states...
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Holiness to the Lord: A Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus. By Alien P. Ross. Grand Rapids...2002, 496 pp., $29.99. Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. By Stephen...Sunday School class on the book of Leviticus is likely to produce a response...
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On Leviticus: "Listen your way in with your mouth": A reading of Leviticus
Magazine article from: Judaism; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; UNLIKE MOST COMMENTARIES, WHICH SEE LEVITICUS AS a pitifully belated attempt at domesticating...an unredeemed people, I hope to show that Leviticus is infinitely richer.1 My approach to Leviticus will follow my own experience of reading...
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Leviticus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Leviticus , book of the Bible, 3d of the five...worship at the end of Exodus. All of Leviticus is ascribed to the so-called Priestly...destruction of Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu. Leviticus probably reached its final canonical...
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Leviticus, Book of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Leviticus, Book of. This OT Book consists almost wholly of legislation. Chapters 17–26 form a well-defined unity known as the ‘ Holiness Code (q.v.). The rest of the Book is not earlier than the 6th cent. BC.
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Leviticus, book of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Leviticus, book of The third book in the OT; the name (from the Latin Vulgate ) is due to its principal theme: the staff who served the...
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Homosexuality
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...with men as with a woman’ occur in Leviticus (18. 22; 20. 13). According to the rabbis...being cut off from the people of Israel, Leviticus 18. 29) and death (Leviticus 20. 13). Very little is said about relations...
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Judaism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...and is codified in the Pentateuch, in Leviticus (chapter 11). Typical edible animals...Danger , the dietary prohibitions of Leviticus include a biblical narrative logic...mammal, an utmost abomination by the Leviticus standards. Finally, animals living...
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