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Reading Leviticus : a conversation with Mary Douglas /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sawyer, John F. A., Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1996.
Colección:Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 227.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.