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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield, Eng. :
Sheffield Academic Press,
©1996.
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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.