The Book of Leviticus Composition and Reception

includes index and biblioraphy

PART ONE LEVITICUS IN ITS LITERARY CONTEXT Leviticus: Its Literary History and Location in Biblical Literature 11 BARUGH LEVINE HR in Leviticus and Elsewhere in the Torah 24 JACOB MILGROM Leviticus: After Exodus and Before Numbers 41 GRAEME AVUD The Structure of the Book of Leviticus in the Narrative Outiine of the Priestiy Sinai Story (Exod 19:l-Num 10:10*) 55 ANDREAS RUWE The Rhetoric of Ritual Instruction in Leviticus 1-7 79 JAMES W. WATTS PART TWO CULT AND SACRIFICE The Theology of the Sacrifice According to Leviticus 1-7 .... 103 ALFRED MARX The Go-Away Goat 121 MARY DOUGLAS Towards an Integrated Reading of the Dietary Laws of Leviticus 142 WALTER J. HOUSTON What Connects the Incest Prohibitions with the Other Prohibitions Listed in Leviticus 18 and 20? 162 ADRIAN SGHENKER PART THREE PRIESTHOOD IN LEVITICUS Le sacerdoce 189 RENE PETER-CONTESSE The Priests in Leviticus—Is the Medium the Message? 207 LESTER L. GRABBE Death and Sexuality Among Priests (Leviticus 21) 225 CALUM CARMIGHAEL PART FOUR LEVITICUS IN TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION The Old Greek Translation of Leviticus 247 SARIANNA METSO AND EUGENE ULRIGH Reception of the Hebrew Text of Leviticus in the Targums 269 MARTIN MGNAMARA, MSG The Reception of Leviticus: Peshitta Version 299 D. J. LANE The Book of Leviticus in tiie Dead Sea Scrolls 323 PETER W. FLINT Rethinking the Notion of "Scripture" in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Leviticus as a Test Case 342 ROBERT A. KUGLER Jesus, Levitical Purity, and the Development of Primitive Christianity 358 BRUCE CHILTON The Rabbinic Reception of Leviticus 383 HANNAH HARRINGTON God`s Self-Introduction Formula in Leviticus in Midrash Sifra 403 GERHARD BODENDORJFER Double Time . . . Double Trouble? Gender, Sin, and Leviticus 12 429 LINDA S. SCHEARING "Coming Before the Lord": The Exclusion of Women from the Public Domain of the Israelite Priestiy Cult 451 JUDITH ROMNEY WEGNER INDICES 1. Index of Selected Scriptural Citations and Ancient Sources 467 2. Index of Modern Authors 471