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Title Reading Leviticus : a conversation with Mary Douglas / edited by John F.A. Sawyer
Published Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 227
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 227.
Contents The language of Leviticus / John F.A. Sawyer -- Is it possible to read Leviticus as a separate book? / Rolf Rendtorff -- Leviticus at the heart of the Pentateuch? / Graeme Auld -- The changing concept of holiness in the Pentateuchal codes with emphasis on Leviticus 19 / Jacob Milgram -- Sacred contagion / Mary Douglas -- Talion and purity: some glosses on Mary Douglas / Bernard Jackson -- The witness of times: an anthropologcal reading of Niddah / Adriana Destro -- 'But if it is a girl, she is unclean for twice seven days ... ' the riddle of Leviticus 12.5 / Jonathan Magonet -- Holiness and purity: the holy people in Leviticus and Ezra-Nehemiah / Hyam Maccoby -- A strange sequence of rules: Leviticus 19.20-26 / Calum Carmichael -- Interpreting Leviticus in the second temple period: struggling with ambiguity / Hannah K. Harrington -- Leviticus as a cultic system in the second temple period: responses to Hannah K. Harrington / Philip R. Davies -- The use of Leviticus in Chronicles / William Johnstone -- ... in Leviticus 5.14-19 and other sources: response to William Johnstone -- Leviticus in Mark: Jesus' attitude to the law / Alan Watson
Summary Until recently Leviticus has been read, especially in Christian circles, as part of a ''priestly'' work with a predominantly prescriptive and ritualistic agenda. In this volume of papers read at a colloquium held in honour of Mary Douglas at Lancaster University in 1995, experts in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish law, comparative law, classical literature and social anthropology raise challenging questions about the composition, context and purpose of the book. Can it be read as an autonomous literary unit? How significant are its unique ethical insights? Is it law or narrative? Does it reflect actua
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
SUBJECT Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007 fast
Bible. Leviticus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Leviticus fast
Subject Holiness -- Biblical teaching
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
Holiness -- Biblical teaching
Leviticus (bijbelboek)
Reinheidswetten.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Sawyer, John F. A.
Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
ISBN 9780567275110
0567275116
1281813885
9781281813886
9786611813888
6611813888