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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814681022
Number of Pages: 406
Published: 15/08/2017
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm

The book of Leviticus provides two different theologies related to God's presence within ancient Israel. Leviticus 1-16 was written by an elite caste of priests (P) and Leviticus 17-26 (H) was added to the book to "democratize" access to God. While the priestly work has hardly inspired lay readers, the Holiness Writings provide some of the most inspiring and well-known verses from the Bible.

This volume shows how gender dynamics shift between the static worldview of P and the dynamic approach of H and that, ironically, as holiness expands from the priests to the people, from the Temple to the Land of Israel, gender behaviors become more highly regulated. This complicates associations between power and gender dynamics and opens the door to questions about the relationships between power, gender, and theological perspectives.

Contents
 List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors x
Foreword “Tell It on the Mountain”—or, “And You Shall Tell Your Daughter [as Well]”
Athalya Brenner-Idan
Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: “She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25)
Barbara E. Reid, OP
Acknowledgments
Author’s Introduction: Reading Leviticus with a Feminist Lens
Leviticus 1:1–3:17 Offerings, Offerers, and Considerations of Gender
Leviticus 4:1–6:7 Something New: Purification and Guilt
Leviticus 6:8–7:38 Another Perspective on Offerings, or What’s In It for the Priests?
Leviticus 8:1–10:20 Coming Into and Managing Power
Leviticus 11:1-47 If You Must Eat Meat, Then . . .
Leviticus 12:1–15:33 Bodies and Access to the Holy
Leviticus 16:1-34 Purifying the Sancta: “It Takes a Village”
Leviticus 17:1-16 A Bloody Mess
Leviticus 18:1–20:27 From Ritual Impurity to Ethical Transgressions
Leviticus 21:1–22:33 Protecting Priestly Privilege
Leviticus 23:1–25:55 Sacred Time, Space, Speech, and Land
Leviticus 26:1-46 Eco-Friendly Blessings and Curses of Chaos
Leviticus 27:1-34 How Much Is a Woman Really Worth?
Postscript
Works Cited
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings
Index of Subjects
 

S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Barbara E. Reid, Lauress Wilkins Lawrence

S. Tamar Kamionkowski is professor of biblical studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, where she served as the vice president for Academic Affairs for almost a decade. She holds a BA from Oberlin College, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD from Brandeis University. Kamionkowski is the author of GenderReversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel (Sheffield Academic, 2003) and co-editor of Bodies, Embodiment and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures (T&T Clark, 2010). She serves as co-chair of the SBL's Jewish Interpretation of the Bible session.

"Kamionkowski offers a highly readable exploration of the book's complex and multi-faceted vision of what it means to live as YHVH's holy people. Scholarly without being prohibitively technical, wide-ranging, and punctuated with fascinating sidebar vignettes that supplement and illustrate the main lines of comment from a variety of perspectives, this insightful and creative treatment well deserves its place in a series that promotes the values of wisdom and inclusivity in biblical exegesis. Leviticus has frequently labored under the shadow of oppressively hierarchical and negatively ritualistic readings. Kamionkowski shows how often it is possible to see this admittedly dense and sometimes obscure book in a positive and egalitarian light. Her work is a gift to all those who want to see how Leviticus continues to resonate powerfully for the good in a context very different from that of its original creation."Deborah Rooke, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford "This commentary provides the balance of a feminist approach to such a markedly patriarchal text. Just as Kamionkowski values the scholarship of her contributors and of all those whose work she cites, readers can gain from this commentary by seeing it in the wider context of other studies of this challenging text." Australian Biblical Review "Even readers with little or no Hebrew will find this a highly accessible and enlightening exploration of an underappreciated OT book." The Bible Today "This work is helpful to the preacher and teacher, indeed to the believer who seeks to understand what a text that has had so much negative influence might mean positively." Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (Water) "The end result is a complex, multivocal commentary on Leviticus. This commentary provides a rich, ideological approach to the text." Melinda Thompson, Abilene Christian University Graduate School of Texas