Purification Offering in the Priestly Literature: Its Meaning and Function

by N. Kiuchi

Publisher:

Sheffield Academic Press

, 1987

Overview

This academic work focuses on the concepts of atonement and sacrifice, using texts from the Pentateuch. Kiuchi looks at the differences between purification rites and those used for expiation. He discusses the Hebrew word, hattat, to discover if it is used mainly in instances of purification or atonement. A variety of interpretations are used to gain a fuller context of the source material.

Key Features

• Includes notes, a bibliography, indexes, and a list of abbrieviations.

Contents

• The Hattat Offering in Lev 4.1-4.13
• The Hattat Offering in Other Sources
• Leviticus 10 and Leviticus 16
• The Kipper Problem
• Some Components of the Hattat Ritual
• The Hattat Offering in Lev 16

Top Highlights

“ In other words, the death caused by sin and uncleanness is annulled by substitutionary death.” (Page 162)

“Inevitably it must be translated ‘iniquity’, ‘guilt’, or ‘punishment’” (Page 50)

“Uncleanness, whether specific or general, is envisaged to be present in the sancta when the offerer stands before God” (Page 161)

“cleanses the altar but simultaneously bears guilt.” (Page 109)

“Thus we conclude that the hattat purifies sancta such as the outer altar, and unclean persons, though the sancta do not appear to be defiled by unclean persons, except in Lev 15:31 and Lev 16:16, 19.” (Page 62)

Product Details

• Title: Purification Offering in the Priestly Literature: Its Meaning and Function
• Author: Nobuyoshi Kiuchi
• Publisher: Sheffield
• Publication Date: 1987
• Pages: 209

About N. Kiuchi

Nobuyoshi Kiuchi is a professor of Old Testament at Tokyo Christian University.

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