Sin, Impurity, Sacrifice, Atonement
The Priestly Conceptions
The goal of this closely reasoned study is to explain why, in Priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible, the verb _kipper_, traditionally translated 'atone', means the way of dealing both with sin and with impurity-which might seem very different things.Sklar's first key conclusion is that when the context is sin, certain sins also pollute; so 'atonement' may include some element of _purification_. His second conclusion is that, when the context is impurity, and _kipper_ means not 'atone' but 'effect purgation', impurity also _endangers_; so _kipper_ can include some element of _ransoming_.In fact, sin and impurity, while distinct categories in th…
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- ISBN: 978-1-909697-88-1
- EAN: 9781909697881
- Produktnummer: 18298467
- Verlag: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 226 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.2 cm 351 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 351
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