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Leviticus

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Leviticus , book of the Bible, 3d of the five books of the Law (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. It is in essence a collection of liturgical legislation with special reference to regulations for the levitical priests, introduced in the canonical sequence immediately after the institution of public worship at the end of Exodus. All of Leviticus is ascribed to the so-called Priestly Source (P) of the Pentateuch. There are laws on various types of sacrifice; on the installation of the priests; on purity and impurity, including the dietary law. Also included are regulations... Read more

Leviticus Rabbah
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Leviticus
Leviticus the third book of the Bible, containing details of law and ritual; in Judaism, the Levitical rules concerning conduct and temple rituals are derived from this book. The Levitical degrees are the degrees of consanguinity within which marriage is forbidden in Leviticus 18:6–18. Read more

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	Leviticus ; Leviticus. NCB. By Philip J. Budd. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996, xxiii + 395 pp., $26.00 paper. Leviticus. OTL. By Erhard S. Gerstenberger. Louisville: Westminster...1996, xiv + 450 pp., $42.00. Two recent treatments of Leviticus by P. Budd and E. Gerstenberger interpret Leviticus through... Read more
	Reading Leviticus: A Conversation with Mary Douglas ; JOHN F. A. SAWYER (ed.), Reading Leviticus: A Conversation with Mary Douglas (JSOTSup...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... Read more
	Ritual and Rhetoric in Leviticus: From Sacrifice to Scripture ; 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 question... Read more
	Holiness to the Lord: A Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus ; ...Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus. By Alien P. Ross. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002, 496 pp., $29.99. Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. By Stephen...Sunday School class on the book of Leviticus is likely to produce a response like... Read more
	Louis Leviticus: Fighting for the survival of tractor testing ; Louis Leviticus may have retired from the Nebraska Tractor...implement dealers in the state. says Leviticus. Nebraska is the only state in the union...of our tests as a marketing too." says Leviticus. "And lots of farmers in other states... Read more
	Louis Leviticus: fighting for the survival of tractor testing. (former head of the Nebraska Tractor Testing Laboratory) ; Louis Leviticus may have retired from the Nebraska Tractor...implement dealers in the state, says Leviticus. Nebraska is the only state in the union...of our tests as a marketing tool, says Leviticus. And lots of farmers in other states... Read more
	IN LEVITICUS, MORAL LAWS VS. CEREMONIAL LAWS HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE ; ...Hancock Jr.'s concerning what the Bible says in Leviticus ("What else Leviticus says," Aug. 27). There is an old saying that goes...share the rest of the story. His argument is that Leviticus is no longer applicable in today's society because... Read more
	On Leviticus: "Listen your way in with your mouth": A reading of Leviticus ; 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 the... Read more
	Leviticus: A Book of Ritual and Ethics ; Leviticus: A Book of Ritual and Ethics. By Jacob Milgrom. A Continental...xx + 388 pp., $30.00. The Continental Commentary on Leviticus is a condensed version of the three-volume commentary...in the Mosaic origins of the Torah, the structure of Leviticus, and the priestly theology of chapters 1-16. The ... Read more
	Holiness to the LORD: A Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus ; ...Guide to the exposition of the book of Leviticus by Alien P. Ross Baker Academic, Grand...08010-2285-1. ROSS INTENDS TO MAKE the book of Leviticus accessible and valuable for contemporary...lengthy discussion of the critical study of Leviticus, dealing with historical, literary, and... Read more

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