TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sklar,Jay
TI  - Sin, impurity, sacrifice, atonement: the priestly conceptions 
T2  - Hebrew Bible monographs
SN  - 9781909697881
AV  - BS1199.S628.S565 2015 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Sheffield
PB  - Sheffield Phoenix Press
KW  - Atonement
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Atonement (Judaism)
KW  - Sin
KW  - Sacrifice
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Purity, Ritual
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages (c)194.-199) and indexes; Part I: *** In Contexts of Sin; Chapter 1. The Consequences of Sin in the Priestly Literature; Chapter 2. *** Defined; Chapter 3. The Verb *** In Contexts of Sin; Part II: *** In Contexts of Impurity; Chapter 4. The Verb *** In Contexts of Impurity; Part III: Sin, Impurity, and ***; Chapter 5. The Relationship Between Sin and Impurity and Its Relevance to ***; Part IV: *** and the Role of Blood; Chapter 6. A Consideration of hte Role of Blood in Sacrificial Atonement, With Special Reference to Leviticus 17.11; Chapter 7. Conclusion; Appendix: *** and Its Syntagmatic Relationsin the Priestly Literature; The Connection between Sin and Punishment --; The Consequences of Sin in the Priestly Literature --; Summary and Comparison of the Penalties for Sin; *** Defined --; Survey of Previous Definitions and Renderings of *** --; Summary; *** In Contexts of Sin --; Summary; Purification and *** --; Consecration and *** --; Purification, Consecration, and *** --; ***, Purgation, and *** --; Summary; Approaches to the Relationship between Sin and Impurity --; ** in the Priestly Literature --; Summary; Leviticus 17.11 --; Summary and Conclusion; 2
N2  - The goal of this closely reasoned study is to explain why, in Priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible, the verb kipper, traditionally translated 'atone', means the way of dealing with both sin and with impurity--which might seem very different things. Sklar's first key conclusion is that when the context is sin, certain sins also pollute; so 'atonement' may include some element of purification. His second conclusion is that, when the context is impurity, and kipper means not 'atone' but 'effect purgation', impurity also endagers; so kipper can include some element of ransoming. In fact, sin and impurity, while distinct categories in themselves, have this in common: each of them requires both ransoming and purification. It is for this reason that kipper can be used in both settings. This benchmark study concludes with a careful examination of hte famous sentence of Leviticus 17.11 that 'blood makes atonement' (kipper) and explains how, in the Priestly ideology, blood sacrifice was able to accomplish both ransom and purification
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