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Holiness, Ethics and Ritual in Leviticus (Hardcover, New)
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Holiness, Ethics and Ritual in Leviticus (Hardcover, New)
Series: Hebrew Bible Monographs, 29
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In this book, Trevaskis argues that holiness in Leviticus always
has an ethical dimension, and is not simply a cultic category. In
so doing he departs from the usual view that in Leviticus 1-16 (P)
holiness is largely a cultic concept. Biblical scholars have
commonly read ritual texts as practical instruction or
prescription, inferring the theological significance of the rituals
from elsewhere. For example, theological interpretations of the
'burnt offering' have been derived from its use in narrative
settings (e.g. Gen. 8.20; 22.13) rather than from its legal
prescription in Leviticus 1. Trevaskis, however, argues that an
implicit command to be holy exists within some ritual texts in
Leviticus, which are more than mere ritual prescriptions. It is in
the symbolic dimensions of the rituals that the theological
significance lies. In support of this argument, he undertakes
exegetical studies of the 'burnt offering' (Leviticus 1), of the
'purity regulations' (Leviticus 11_15) and of the physical
appearance of priests and sacrificial animals (Leviticus 21-22).
These studies take place within a methodological framework that
avoids capricious symbolic interpretations. Trevaskis draws on
cognitive linguistic insights to discern when a text may allude to
other texts within the Pentateuch (especially Genesis 1-3), and
attends to the legislator's use of various rhetorical devices (e.g.
'rhetorical progression'). Since the command to 'be holy' in
Leviticus 17-26 (H) only makes explicit what P leaves implicit in
Leviticus 1-16, this study has important implications for the
compositional history of Leviticus. It becomes much less clear that
H's ethical view of holiness developed from a prophetic critique of
P (as Milgrom and Knohl, for example, argue).
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