Wednesday, February 16, 2022

More on Leviticus 10

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW has two more essays from the SBL panel on Leviticus 10:

Adaptation to the Story World: a Response to Nathan MacDonald (Liane Feldman)

... In the end it makes little difference to me if Leviticus 8, 9, and 10 were written by one or ten authors, as long as we recognize the interdependence of ritual and narrative in these texts and take seriously the idea that textualized ritual must react to its narrative environment.

A Pair of Pyromaniacs (Meike J. Röhrig)

The first invitation for this workshop settled both the topic: “theocracy”, and the text under discussion: Lev 10 with an emphasis on the first part of the chapter, the death of Nadab and Abihu. This suggests that there is a connection between Nadab’s and Abihu’s mishap with the incense offering and a concept or concepts of theocracy.

Background here.

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