04516nam 2200709Ia 450 991079224480332120230422051830.00-19-924419-70-19-151838-71-282-05293-49786612052934(CKB)2560000000300169(EBL)728746(OCoLC)405048370(SSID)ssj0000191666(PQKBManifestationID)12024063(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191666(PQKBWorkID)10184039(PQKB)11437506(SSID)ssj0000087994(PQKBManifestationID)11112991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087994(PQKBWorkID)10091836(PQKB)11692054(StDuBDS)EDZ0000074930(MiAaPQ)EBC728746(Au-PeEL)EBL728746(CaPaEBR)ebr10283766(CaONFJC)MIL205293(MiAaPQ)EBC7035955(Au-PeEL)EBL7035955(EXLCZ)99256000000030016920001029e20001999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLeviticus as literature[electronic resource] /Mary DouglasOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20001 online resource (299 p.)Originally published: 1999.0-19-815092-X 0-19-160054-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-264) and indexes.Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. The Ancient Religion; Chronology and the Writing; Reconstructing the Primordial Religion; 2. Two Styles of Thought; Analogical versus Rational-Instrumental Thinking; From Analogic to Dialogic; Social Basis of the Greek Breakthrough; Greek and Chinese Science; Imperatives in Leviticus; 3. Two Styles of Writing; The Language of Feeling; Containing and Covering; Mount Sinai; 4. Mountain, Tabernacle, Body in Leviticus 1-7; Logic of the Body; Forbidden Items; Entrails and Legs; The Inmost Being; The Doctrine of Remainders5. The Totally Reformed ReligionDeuteronomy and Leviticus; The Central Sanctuary; No Cult of the Dead; Deuteronomy's Legislation; 6. Oracles Support Divine Justice; Divination and Sacrifice; Knowing When to Make a Private Sacrifice; Plausibility of Oracles; Priestly Divination; Inadvertent Sin; Sacrilege; Juridical Uses of the Oath; 7. Land Animals, Pure and Impure; Land Animals Under the Covenant; The Two Texts; Interpretations of Uncleanness/Impurity; Sacred Contagion; 8. Other Living Beings; God's Care for his Creation; Translating Swarming as Teeming; Leaven and Honey as Teeming LifeTranslating AbominationCreatures that Swarm in the Air; Competition in the Holiness Stakes; Conclusion; 9. Atonement for Sick Bodies; Loss of Vital Fluids; Leprosy; Reproductive Disorders; 10. The Two Screens; Leviticus a Projection of the Tabernacle; Fire for Fire, Burning for Burning; The Curser Cursed; Scandal of Talion; The Language of Oracles; 11. Inside the House/Book of God; Macro markers; The Outer Court; The Sanctuary; Atonement; Pedimental Composition; 12. Inside the Holy of Holies; The Great Proclamation of Liberty; Reading Leviticus through Genesis: CoveringReading Scapegoat and Scapebird through GenesisReferences; Index of Bible References; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThis first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent,they command the same respect due to all God's creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, MTheological anthropologyTheological anthropology.222.1306222/.1306Douglas Mary1921-2007.81710MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792244803321Leviticus as literature3796386UNINA