Reading Leviticus : a conversation with Mary Douglas /: a conversation with Mary Douglas. (©1996)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by John F.A. Sawyer.
• Other Names: Sawyer, John F. A; Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Sheffield, Eng : Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Copyright Date: 1996
• Extent: 1 online resource (290 pages)
• Subjects: 222/.1306; Douglas, Mary; Sainteté -- Enseignement biblique; RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament; Leviticus (bijbelboek); Reinheidswetten; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567275110; 0567275116
• Related ISBNs: 1850756287; 9781850756286
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.