Sacrifice often connotes death or some form of lack within popular discourse. The association of sacrifice with death is assumed in some strains of the Christian tradition that employ sacrifice within a penal substitutionary account of the atonement. In this framework, sacrifice…
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The life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus are not often read against the backdrop of the sacrificial system of Leviticus, despite the fact that the Letter to the Hebrews and other New Testament texts do exactly this. Until recently, Hebrew Bible scholars had little i…
This project explicates the message and theology of Leviticus 16. Chapter 1 introduces the history of the theological interpretation of Leviticus 16. Set forth also is the thesis, scope, and methodology of this project. Chapter 2 furnishes a study on four important terms in Levi…
This study, conceived as one step toward addressing the American church's struggles over sexual matters, begins with the fact that Leviticus 18 (the chapter covering sexual impurities) addresses itself to "the sons of Israel," not to Christians, yet Christians regard it as Holy …
The dissertation traces the development and interpretation of the Israelite institution of the jubilee year from its ancient Near Eastern analogues and antecedents to the Jewish religious writings of the last centuries before Christ. The jubilee legislation of Leviticus 25 is co…
In order to assess the purpose and function of the incest narratives in the Pentateuch and the incest prohibitions of Leviticus 18, the following examination constitutes a formal analysis of ancient Israelite kinship terminology. According to anthropologists, only through a form…
This dissertation traces the Jubilee tradition through two profound historical transformations separating three distinct stages of interpretation, reflected in Leviticus 25 and related passages, stretching from ANE roots to Luke. The complex originated as ancient social welfare …
This study explores the topic of menstruation in the Hebrew Bible. The main texts examined include ritual-legal material (Leviticus 15), narrative (Genesis 31 and 2 Samuel 11) and prophecy (Ezekiel 7, 16, 18, 22, 36). For the most part this study employs the historical-literary …
This study argues that Leviticus 25–26 lends its vocabulary to the description of eschatological rest with an emphasis on its covenantal bonds. In order to establish the thesis this dissertation conducts an exegetical analysis of Leviticus 25–26 with emphasis on the themes of re…
Provides a literary reading of Leviticus 19, an investigation that seeks to demonstrate how the relationships outlined in Leviticus 19 provide the basis for the definition of “holy” in the Old (and New) Testament. Focuses on a detailed outline of chapter 19 as the starting-point…
Chapter 1 first establishes the study's methodology, then explores Hebrews' interest(s) in Leviticus as a pathway into Leviticus itself, sketching Hebrews' appropriation of the Day of Atonement, the high priest as sacrificial officiant, "daily" sacrifices, the inauguration of co…
The socio-religious regulations of Leviticus offer little-explored perspectives from which to reflect on the relationship between humanity and the non-human creation. The cosmological framework upon which the worldview expressed in Leviticus is constructed places humanity at the…