The Love of Neighbour in Ancient Judaism
The Love of Neighbour in Ancient Judaism

Author: Kengo Akiyama

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9004366881

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In The Love of Neighbour in Ancient Judaism, Kengo Akiyama traces the development of the mainstay of early Jewish and Christian ethics: "Love your neighbour." Akiyama examines several Second Temple Jewish texts in great detail and demonstrates a diverse range of uses and applications that opposes a simplistic and evolutionary trajectory often associated with the development of the "greatest commandment" tradition. The monograph presents surprisingly complex interpretative developments in Second Temple Judaism uncovering just how early interpreters grappled with the questions of what it means to love and who should be considered as their neighbour.

People and Land in the Holiness Code
People and Land in the Holiness Code

Author: Jan Joosten

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9004275916

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This work proposes a reconstruction of the thought world underlying the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26). It focuses on the notions of people and land, which are central to the way the law is presented in this corpus. Important themes treated include the sons of Israel, the resident alien, the call to holiness, the camp in the desert and the land as the property of the Lord. The conceptual universe of the Holiness Code is entirely dominated by the notion of the presence of the Lord in his sanctuary, in the midst of his people. It is this presence which requires the Israelites to observe holiness and confers upon the land its particular status. The priestly conception of the relationship between God, people and land finds interesting parallels in the ideology of holy places evidenced in writings from the Ancient Near East.

The Book of Leviticus
The Book of Leviticus

Author: Rolf Rendtorff

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9789004126343

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This collection of essays examines Leviticus in its compositional and literary context, issues of cult and sacrifice in Leviticus, Leviticus on the priesthood, and Leviticus in translation and interpretation. The volume will serve biblical studies well long into the future.

Mapping the New Testament
Mapping the New Testament

Author: Serge Ruzer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9004158928

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This volume consists of eight chapters dealing with a selected topic in New Testament biblical interpretation, its inherited elements and its relevance for better understanding of wider Jewish exegetical trends.

Literary Artistry in Leviticus
Literary Artistry in Leviticus

Author: Wilfried Warning

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9004497153

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This study explores the vocabulary employed in the extant text of Leviticus. The chosen methodology of rhetorical analysis (with particular emphasis upon terminological patterns) shows a carefully composed text. The basic working hypothesis that Leviticus has been artistically structured around 37 divine speeches 'and the Lord spoke/said to Moses (and Aaron)' . With chapter 16 as its possible structural and theological center has been substantiated both on the microstructural and macrostructural levels. The plethora of significant micro- and macrostructural terminological patterns, suggests original literary cohesiveness and hence single-handed authorship. These findings are of special significance regarding so-called "P" and "H" passages, a "layer of priestly reworking", and, even more, the exegesis and theology of Leviticus.

Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible
Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible

Author: Baruch J. Schwartz

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0567028321

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This book is a collection of essays on purificaton and atonement in the Hebrew Bible that provides new insights into the discussion of these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and anthropological approaches to the topics. The collection also examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what extent it is possible to speak of the function or meaning of ritual, even within the highly systematic priestly texts.

Temples and Temple-service in Ancient Israel
Temples and Temple-service in Ancient Israel

Author: Menahem Haran

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780931464188

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This milestone study is a thorough examination of the various cultic and social phenomena connected with the temple--activities connected with the temple's inner sphere and belonging to the priestly circle. The book also seeks to demonstrate the antiquity and the historical timing of the literary crystallization of the priestly material found in the Pentateuch. Contents: Prologue, The Israelite Temples, Temples and Open Sacred Places, The Priesthood and the Tribe of Levi, The Aaronites and the Rest of the Levitical Tribe, The Distribution of the Levitical Tribe, The Centralizations of the Cult, The Priestly Image of the Tabernacle, Grades of Sanctity in the Tabernacle, Temple and Tabernacle, The Ritual Complex Performed Inside the Temple, Incense of the Court and of the Temple Interior, The Symbols of the Inner Sanctum, The Non-Priestly Image of the Tent of Mo'ed, The Emptying of the Inner Sanctum, Pilgrim-Feasts and Family Festivals, and The Passover Sacrifice.