Research Catalog

Title

Reading Leviticus : a conversation with Mary Douglas / edited by John F.A. Sawyer.

Publication

Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Sawyer, John F. A.
• Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.

Description

290 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• The impact of Mary Douglas's anthropological work on biblical studies has nowhere been more strongly felt than in the area of biblical legal systems. A group of experts in bible, Jewish law, comparative law, classical literature and social anthropology met in 1995 in the company of Mary Douglas to explore the book of Leviticus.
• Among the topics reviewed and published in this volume, are: the unity of Leviticus, its ethical principles, its genre, its relation to social reality, its date, and its place in the development of Jewish law.

Series Statement

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 227

Uniform Title

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 227.

Subject

• Bible > Leviticus > Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Contains an edited version of the proceedings of a colloquium held on 30 May-1 June 1995 at Lancaster University, originally entitled: Unity, Purity, and the Covenant: Reading Leviticus"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and indexes.

Contents

The language of Leviticus / John F.A. Sawyer -- Is it possible to read Leviticus as a separate book? / Rolf Rendtorff -- Leviticus at the heart of the Pentateuch? / Graeme Auld -- The changing concept of holiness in the Pentateuchal codes with emphasis on Leviticus 19 / Jacob Milgram -- Sacred contagion / Mary Douglas -- Talion and purity : some glosses on Mary Douglas / Bernard Jackson -- The witness of times : an anthropologcal reading of Niddah / Adriana Destro -- 'But if it is a girl, she is unclean for twice seven days ...' the riddle of Leviticus 12.5 / Jonathan Magonet -- Holiness and purity : the holy people in Leviticus and Ezra-Nehemiah / Hyam Maccoby -- A strange sequence of rules : Leviticus 19.20-26 / Calum Carmichael -- Interpreting Leviticus in the second temple period : struggling with ambiguity / Hannah K. Harrington -- Leviticus as a cultic system in the second temple period : responses to Hannah K. Harrington / Philip R. Davies -- The use of Leviticus in Chronicles / William Johnstone -- ... in Leviticus 5.14-19 and other sources : response to William Johnstone -- Leviticus in Mark: Jesus' attitude to the law / Alan Watson.

Call Number

*PDW (Leviticus) 97-930

ISBN

• 1850756287
• 9781850756286

LCCN

97105156

OCLC

36168065

Title

Reading Leviticus : a conversation with Mary Douglas / edited by John F.A. Sawyer.

Imprint

Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1996.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 227

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 227.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and indexes.

Added Author

Sawyer, John F. A.

Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007.

Research Call Number

*PDW (Leviticus) 97-930