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A New Look at Atonement in Leviticus - The Meaning and Purpose of Kipper Revisited (Hardcover)
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A New Look at Atonement in Leviticus - The Meaning and Purpose of Kipper Revisited (Hardcover)
Series: Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplement
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In this book, James A. Greenberg examines animal sacrifice in
Priestly Torah texts found in Leviticus 1-16, Exodus, and Numbers.
Through his analysis, Greenberg identifies a new valence of kipper
as a process that produces a positive result between two objects
and argues that the Israelite sanctuary exists to facilitate a
connection between YHWH, sancta, and the Israelites through the
medium of blood. Rather than beginning with a priori assumptions of
what sacrificial terms and symbols mean, Greenberg allows his
interpretation to develop through an accumulation of textual clues.
To avoid the exegetical pitfalls of symbolic and structuralist
approaches, he focuses on what the language of the ritual says
about sacrifice and what it seeks to accomplish. His investigation
considers why the flesh and blood of an animal are used by the
priest as he mediates on behalf of the offerer through the medium
of YHWH's sanctuary, what the difference is between intentional and
unintentional sin, how the meaning of kipper changes from one
sacrifice to the next, whether the sanctuary can be both holy and
unclean, and how priests conceive of YHWH's interaction with
sancta, the offerer, and the animal. A New Look at Atonement in
Leviticus recalibrates our understanding of kipper and furthers our
knowledge of the priestly cult in ancient Israel. It will
especially interest scholars of Biblical Hebrew and the Old
Testament in particular.
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