By Jan Joosten
This paintings proposes a reconstruction of the idea global underlying the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26). It specializes in the notions of individuals and land, that are important to the way in which the legislation is gifted during this corpus. very important topics handled contain the sons of Israel, the resident alien, the decision to holiness, the camp within the wilderness and the land because the estate of the Lord.
The conceptual universe of the Holiness Code is completely ruled via the inspiration of the presence of the Lord in his sanctuary, in the middle of his humans. it's this presence which calls for the Israelites to watch holiness and confers upon the land its specific status.
The priestly notion of the connection among God, humans and land unearths attention-grabbing parallels within the ideology of holy areas evidenced in writings from the traditional close to East.
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M. , Priesthood and Cult in Ancient Israel, JSOTS 125 (Sheffield, 1991),34-66. 54 Schwartz, Chapters, 10. Compare also Hempel, Literatur, 81. For a fundamentalist approach which comes very dose to the one proposed by Schwartz, see J. H. Sailhammer, The Pentateuch as Narrative. A Biblical-Theological Commentary (Grand R~ids, 1992), 342-365. Schwartz, Chapters, 17. 56 However, the narrative and the laws incorporated in it were designed to be read publidy with a didactic aim, see Schwartz, "Prohibition", 35.
1. 67. Otto also links the notion of divine law to the blending of different types of prescriptions. However. whereas for Kaufmann this is an original and essential characteristic of biblicaI law. Otto sees the "theologizing" of law as a late development arising from a breakdown of the traditional authority structures (the clan). See especially E. Otto. Wandel der Rechtsbegründungen in der Gesellschaftsgeschichte des antiken Israel. Studia Biblica 3 (BrilI. 1988). 17 See B. Gemser. "The Importance ofthe Motive Clause in Old Testament Law".
And passionate style of H, to the way single commandments are used to exemplify a whole domain and to the frequent use of formulas of the kind "these are the commandments ... " . 37 Von Rad, "Deuteronomium-Studien", 118-126. 38 Reventlow, Heiligkeitsgesetz. Though Reventlow refers to Klostermann, it seems that a subtle difference exists between their views: for Klostermann, H was written in order to be read, whereas Reventlow sees in H the record of originally oral preaching. 39 See the review of his book by R.
