Leviticus

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Leviticus. NCB. By Philip J. Budd. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996, xxiii + 395 pp., $26.00 paper. Leviticus. OTL. By Erhard S. Gerstenberger. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996, xiv + 450 pp., $42.00.

Two recent treatments of Leviticus by P. Budd and E. Gerstenberger interpret Leviticus through the grid of the Wellhausenian documentary hypothesis. Of the two works, Budd is more prone to see accurate reflections of historical events than Gerstenberger, though he, like Gerstenberger, assumes that the book reflects the life situation of Israel later than the time of Moses. The book of ...

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