Reading Leviticus: A Conversation with Mary Douglas

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

JOHN F. A. SAWYER (ed.), Reading Leviticus: A Conversation with Mary Douglas (JSOTSup 227; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996). Pp. 290. 45, $65.

This book is the result of a conference held at Lancaster University in 1995 which brought together an international group of scholars to consider the Book of Leviticus in light of the anthropological and literary studies of Mary Douglas. (For her most recent contribution and one discussed frequently in the volume under consideration, see M. Douglas, "Poetic Structure in Leviticus," Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, ...

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