Book Of Levius Research Paper

The term holy and its antecedent unclean is the primary theme in the Book of Leviticus. The Levitical cognate as regards both term occurs 132 times in the Old Testament; over 50 percent of these are Leviticus. All of that says to us that if we are going to begin to get some kind of grasp of Leviticus, we must have some kind of grasp over what clean and unclean means and how these words apply to the Israelite.

In the Book Of Leviticus, it speaks about clean and unclean foods. Clean foods are to be cleansed and signifies the holiness and cleanliness of the priest in the order of worship in the temple. Holiness means cleanliness of hands and heart as it is written in Psalm 24 "who shall ascend into the holy hill of God, those who have clean hands and a pure heart. In Leviticus, the Pharisees referred to the cleanness as holiness as we understand …show more content…
If we are going to understand how our Lord differed from the scribes and the Pharisees, if we are going to understand how Judaism “went to seed” on the area of clean and unclean, we must first understand the backdrop teaching of cleanness and uncleanness as it is introduced in Leviticus chapter 11. We must also observe that cleanness and uncleanness is related to holiness. Certainly, this is so in Leviticus. And if that is so, then if you and I are committed to the concept of holiness in general, and to the reality of holiness in specific in our lives, then we must understand the role which cleanness plays in regard to holiness. All of this says to us that these chapters are important. We must understand what we are dealing with as we come to our study because clean and unclean is one of the great issues of the