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What does Leviticus mean? What does the content of Leviticus mean?
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The name Leviticus means, “pertaining to the Levites”.
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What is the structure of Leviticus?
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Its structure is as follows: (1-7) sacrificial laws, (8-10) priestly narrative, (11-16) laws to protect ritual cleanness, (17-27) Holiness code.
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What is the genre of Leviticus?
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Leviticus continues the genre of the Pentateuch as a whole, which is primarily instructional history (law) with some historical history. It intends to inform the reader about the past providing a historical background to the law.
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What are the five sacrifices of Leviticus 1-7 by name?
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1. burnt offering – ola
2. grain offering – minha 3. fellowship offering – shelimim 4. purification offering – hattat 5. guilt offering – asham |
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Describe in detail Minha
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This sacrifice of grain, which pertained of four, oil and incense, were gifts made to the sovereign Lord of the covenant. Its literal translation means “tribute”. The sacrifice was divided into two parts 1. Incense and grain to please God and 2. Grain for the priest.
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Describe in detail 'Ola
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The burnt offering, or ola (which is Hebrew for descending) derives its name from the fact that the fragrant aroma of the sacrifice rises up to heaven in the form of smoke. This sacrifice was concerned with the expiation or atonement of sins. When the animal was brought to be sacrificed, the worshiper placed their hands on the animal before it was slaughtered. This was an act of identification signifying that the animal was to take the place of the worshiper, dying for his sins. After this identification, the animal is slaughtered, its blood gathered and splattered (on the altar). Then it is skinned and burned. The type of animal used depended in the economic situation of the worshiper. Cattle were used for a high income, sheep and goats for a middle, and birds for a low one.
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Describe in detail Shelamim
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This is the peace and fellowship offering. It comes from a Hebrew word meaning “peace”. It is a sacrifice predominantly for fellowship between both the worshiper and God, and among the worshipers. This sacrifice focuses on the relationship that exists between covenant partners. The meal that took place after the sacrifice was a celebration of that relationship in which everyone took part: the Lord, the priests, and the worshipers. This sacrifice was a gift as well as an act of expiation.
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What is the connection between sacrifice and repentance and covenant?
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When someone sins, it obstructs the relationship with God. In order to reestablish that relationship, we have to repent, offering sacrifices. This is under the umbrella of covenant, which refers to the relationship that exists between God and his people. Sacrifice was the most important activity of formal worship during the Old Testament period, set up by God himself. These sacrifices had special relationship with the covenant. They relate in three ways: 1. The sacrifice is a gift on the part of the worshiper to his covenant Lord. 2. Many sacrifices include a notion of communion or fellowship between covenant partners. 3. Sacrifice plays a major role in healing rifts in the covenant relationships, described as expiation or atonement. When the covenant relationship was broken, Israel could repent through the use of sacrifice. It was the divinely sanctioned means for restoring the covenant relationship, the way for Gods people to repent. The animal sacrifices anticipate the sacrifice of Christ who is the ultimate and once-and-for-all sacrifice.
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What is the significance of the priests' clothes?
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The Levites, descendant of Aaron, became the priestly tribe of the Israelites. They were ordained (anointed) by God to be the priests at Mt. Sinai, where they protected the holiness of God. The tunics they wore were significant because they were made of the same material as the innermost part of the tabernacle. They were also embroidered like the tabernacle. In this way, the priests became like “little tabernacles”.
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What is the Day of Atonement? What is it's purpose?
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Day of Atonement literally means At-one-ment (at one with god). One day a year, the high priest entered the Most Holy room, the one containing the Ark of the Covenant. First he changed clothes from his priestly tunic to a simple white robe. This was to show humility while in the presence of God. He then offers sacrifices for his sins and the sins of Israel after which he uses two goats in the ceremony. He places his hands on the first goat (which becomes the scapegoat) and sends it out into the wilderness to associate it with the removal of sin from the community. The second goat is sacrificed with regular atonement value for Israel and himself. He brings the blood of the goat into the Most Holy place and sprinkles it on the arc. In this ritual, the sins of the nation of Israel are atoned for.
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Why are some foods unclean?
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Many of the OT laws pertained to what foods were clean and unclean. Those considered clean were: 1. Those with completely divided hooves and chewed their cud. 2. What has fins and scales. 3. Birds of various kinds. Some examples of unclean animals include camel, pig, and eagle. There are different explanations for why these would be unclean. One lesser reason is that of hygiene. The larger reason for the kosher laws has to do with separating the Israelites from the Canaanites as Holy. By abstaining from traditionally gentile, “unclean”, food, the Israelites effectively isolate themselves as God’s people. Unclean animals were defined as those that departed from the “creation norm”. An example of this would be fish without scales and fins (they don’t conform to the class in which they belong). These unclean animals blur the creation distinction.
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Why are skin diseases a problem?
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Since God was present with Israel, the purity of the camp had to be maintained. If one was unclean, they were required to leave the camp for a period of time. One cause for uncleanness was skin disease. The practical reason behind this was for sanitation. The spread of disease is always a worry, but especially when the priesthood can be affected (endangering their Holiness). Most importantly, however, the priests must distance themselves from diseases because they represent the onset of death and decay.
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What is it about blood and semen that they get special treatment in Leviticus?
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Two substances that were considered unclean in Leviticus are blood and seamen. This is not an ethical impurity, but rather a Holy one. They were so holy that they were considered unclean. Both substances were set apart in the Old Testament as representations of life and were considered very taboo. The blood was important because of its significance in sacrificial ceremonies. In these ceremonies the blood represented life, and in being shed, it represented death. The importance of the seamen was the correlation between it and the divine promise of the seed. Good examples of uncleanness by holiness are holy books that defile the hands. Once touched, one must wash their hands before touching anything else.
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What is the composition of Leviticus?
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The composition is assigned mostly to P since most of its matters revolve around priestly matters of cult and laws. It may have also used an earlier source called the Holiness Code (H)(17-27). It is believed to have essential Mosaic authorship.
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What does Numbers mean? What does it tell you about its content?
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The book of Numbers is named such because of its use of numbers.
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What is the structure of Numbers?
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. It is a continuation of the previous three books and its composition follows the same general pattern of the rest of the Pentateuch: essential Mosaic authorship with the use of some source material (JEPD and others).
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What is the genre of Numbers?
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Most of the genre of the book is consistent with that of the rest of the Pentateuch: instructional history. It also shows the prophetic history of the law.
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What is the composition of Numbers?
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The structure of Numbers is based on the death of the Old generation of God’s people (which occurred out of Egypt on the march in the wilderness) and the birth of the New (as they prepare to enter the Promised Land).
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What is the theme of Numbers?
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One important theme in numbers (as well as the rest of the Bible) is that God stays involved. The sin of the first generation could have ended the story of redemption and destroyed Gods people, but God did not abandon his people even in their rebellion and sin.
Centers on these two draft registrations: Judgment on first generation, hope for the second generation |
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What role do the census reports found in Numbers 1 and 26 play?
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Chapters 1 and 26 of Numbers give important census accounts. The census in chapter one is of the original wilderness generation, which dies in the wilderness because of their sin. (It notes men over twenty who might fight in the war and the twelve leaders of the twelve tribes. This conceptualizes the march to Israel as the march of an army?). Chapter twenty-six gives another census of the second generation, which is the generation of hope that will actually go into the promise land.
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