Leviticus

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Leviticus

• AS/HUMA 3810

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Structure of Book 1

• I. Continuation of Exod ? 99 P
• II. Chaps 1-7 Sacrificial system
• III. Chaps 8-10 Inauguration of sanctuary
• A. continuation of Tabernacle account (Exod 40)
• B. sin of Nadab Abihu
• IV. Chaps 11-16 laws of impurity
• A. 13-14 leprosy

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Structure of Book 2

• V. Holiness Code Lev 17-26 (18-20 reiterate the
  theme)
• A. holiness as imitation of God
• 1) concept of holiness as separation/something
  set apart
• a) nations ? Israel ? priests ? God
• world ? holy land ? (Jerusalem ?) temple
• ordinary time ? festivals ? Sabbath
• outer court ? hall ? holy of holies
• b) Lev 191-4 holiness
• c) Lev 1933-37 because of what God did
• 2) Chap 23 festivals ? central sanctuary
• VI. Chap 27 miscellaneous gifts to the sanctuary

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Holiness Continuum(from Bandstra)
Holiness Continuum
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Offerings (from Bandstra)
Offerings

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Passages 1

• Lev 101-11 Nadab and Avihu
• Lev 11 kashrut
• Lev 12 womens impurity after childbirth
• Lev 13 leprosy on persons and clothing
• Lev 14 cleansing of lepers mouldy (i.e.
  leprous) houses
• Lev 15 male and female bodily discharges (i.e.
  semen and menstrual blood)
• Lev 16 priestly ritual of expiation and
  atonement (Azazel YK)
• Lev 17 prohibition of profane slaughter, of
  eating blood, of eating treifa
• Lev 18 sexual prohibitions

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Passages 2

• Lev 19 central laws of holiness (vv 20-22
  sleeping with a slave-woman v 29 prohibition on
  selling daughter into harlotry)
• Lev 20 more laws of holiness including vv
  10-21 adultery nakedness
• Lev 21 additional laws for priests (vv 7-9 sex
  the single priest vv 13-15 sex the high
  priest v 19 crushed testes)
• Lev 22 acceptability of offerings offerands
  (v 4 disqualification of priest w/ discharge)
• Lev 23 festivals
• Lev 24 misc. regulations, including death for
  blasphemy ? eye for eye etc. (vv 10-23)
• Lev 25 agricultural laws the jubilee year
• Lev 26 blessings curses (end of chapter
  first colophon)
• Lev 27 vows