The Old Testament book of Leviticus.

LEVITICUS

BIB 111 History & Literature of Ancient Israel

September 23, 2002

At the end of the Exodus, the temple is completed. The book of Leviticus is the instruction to the Israelites, revealing Gods holiness and how His imperfect battalion were to remain with His presence dwelling in the tabernacle in the midst of their nation. God gives Moses His instructions for His citizenry in close to a month at Mount Sinai between the erection of the Tabernacle and the departure of the throng into the Promised Land. He teaches them how to use the tabernacle and how His people should behave. The book though, is hard to read and relate to in our modern age, whether we are Jewish or Christian, because the temple, animal sacrifice, and goal of that time are completely foreign to us.

In Leviticus, God is the straight off speaker throughout almost all of it, addressing two groups of people: the first half of the book to the Levite priests, and the rest mainly involves the Israelites as a whole. The first seven chapters are dedicated to instructing the priest how to perform the six different sacrifices: the burnt offering, grain offering, eudaimonia offering, sin offering, graded sin offering, and guilt offering.



Chapters 8-10 are a narrative about the rites of the priest, climaxing at the death of Aarons two sons, display Gods seriousness. Chapters 11-16 switch the attention from the priestly duties to the behavior of Israel as a whole. God gives Moses an array of different laws to maintain the purity of his people that they may come before Him in worship. These laws range from dietetic laws to sexual restrictions. God throughout, reminds his people I am the overlord and demands that the Israelites live in a way that would be sanctum sanctorum and set...

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