Priestly Offering: Law and Narrative in the Aramaic Levi Document
In this article, I propose a new reading for both law and narrative in the Aramaic Levi Document (ALD). In the first section, I show that the passage of "the law of the priesthood" pertains to the daily morning service in the Temple. In the second section, I suggest that the narrative that...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2024, Volume: 117, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Levi Document
/ Genesis
/ Morning prayer
/ Legislation (Theology)
/ Burnt offering
/ Priest
/ Judaism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
law and narrative
B Sacrifices B Priesthood B Aramaic Levi Document |
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| Summary: | In this article, I propose a new reading for both law and narrative in the Aramaic Levi Document (ALD). In the first section, I show that the passage of "the law of the priesthood" pertains to the daily morning service in the Temple. In the second section, I suggest that the narrative that contains these instructions, in which Isaac speaks to Levi at Abraham’s home, exegetically connects the laws to the story of Isaac, whose father offered him up on an altar, and reflects a priestly theology that views the priest himself as an offering. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816023000421 |