Leviticus Explained: Why Scholars Changed Their Minds About Purity Laws

Описание: What if the most "boring" book of the Bible is actually a sophisticated symbolic system? For centuries, scholars dismissed Leviticus as primitive superstition—until anthropologists revealed the deep logic behind its rules about sacrifice, purity, and holiness.

In this video, discover how the Priestly School created a comprehensive worldview through the categories of holy/profane and pure/impure, and why modern scholarship now sees Leviticus as a window into how ancient Israel constructed meaning and sacred order.

📚 Key concepts covered:
• The Priestly School (P) and their jurisdiction over sanctuary, sacrifice, and sacred distinctions
• The five-part structure of Leviticus and its internal logic
• The distinction between P (chapters 1-16) and the Holiness Code H (chapters 17-26)
• Mary Douglas's anthropological revolution in understanding purity laws
• The holy/profane and pure/impure framework as a coherent symbolic system
• Why ritual impurity is not the same as moral sinfulness

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📖 ORIGINAL SOURCE
This video distills insights from academic biblical scholarship on Leviticus and the Priestly tradition. Full credit to the original lecture and scholarly sources that informed this content.
Source:    • Lecture 9. The Priestly Legacy: Cult and S...  

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