Leviticus : a book of ritual and ethics /
Jacob Milgrom.
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, (c)2004.
- xx, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Continental commentaries .
Leviticus 1-7 : the sacrificial system -- The burnt offering -- The cereal offering -- The well-being offering -- The purification offering -- Offerings, sacrilege, repentance -- The priestly sacrificial duties -- Leviticus 8-10 : the inauguration of the tabernacle service -- The consecration of the priests -- The inaugural service -- The tragic aftermath -- Leviticus 11-16 : the impurity system -- The dietary laws -- Childbirth -- Scale disease -- Purification after scale disease -- Genital discharges -- The day of purgation (Yom Kippur) -- Leviticus 17-27 : the holiness source (H) -- The prohibitions of secular slaughter and eating blood -- Illicit sexual practices -- Ritual and moral holiness, ethics -- Penalties for Molek worship, necromancy, and sexual violations -- Instructions for the priests -- Instructions for the priests and laypersons -- The festival calendar -- Tabernacle oil and bread, blasphemy, talion laws -- Jubilee, the priestly response to economic injustice -- Blessings, curses, and the recall of the covenant -- Consecrations and their redemption.