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Reading Leviticus : a conversation with Mary Douglas / edited by John F.A. Sawyer.

Contributor(s): Sawyer, John F. A | Douglas, Mary
Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the Old Testament: 227.Publisher: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1850756287 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Leviticus -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Douglas, MaryDDC classification: 222/.1306 LOC classification: BS1255.2 | .R43 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-278) and indexes.Local Note: Copy 2 is from the collection of Professor R. Norman Whybray.Differentiable Local Note:
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.

"Contains an edited version of the proceedings of a colloquium held on 30 May-1 June 1995 at Lancaster University, originally entitled: Unity, Purity, and the Covenant: Reading Leviticus"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-278) and indexes.

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.

Copy 2 is from the collection of Professor R. Norman Whybray.

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