Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

Volume 3

General Editor: Donald J. Wiseman

Leviticus

An Introduction and Commentary

R. K. Harrison

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© R. K. Harrison, 1980

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First published 1980

Reprinted in this format 2008

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

UK ISBN: 978-1-84474-258-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Harrison, R. K.

Leviticus: an introduction and commentary / R. K. Harrison.

p. cm.—(Tyndale Old Testament commentaries; v. 3)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8308-4203-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Bible. O.T. Leviticus—Commentaries. I. Title.

BS1255.3.H37

222'.1306—dc22

2007052683

US ISBN: 978-0-8308-4203-2

CONTENTS

General preface

Author’s preface

Chief abbreviations

Introduction

Title of the book

Nature of Leviticus

Authorship and date

Unity of Leviticus

Purpose of the book

Theology of Leviticus

Leviticus and the New Testament

The Hebrew text

Analysis

The sacrifices of Leviticus

Commentary

Probable plan of the tabernacle

The high priest’s breastpiece

The feasts of Leviticus 23 and other Old Testament calendars

Appendix A: Leviticus 13

Appendix B: Sex and its theology

GENERAL PREFACE

The aim of this series of Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, as it was in the companion volumes on the New Testament, is to provide the student of the Bible with a handy, up-to-date commentary on each book, with the primary emphasis on exegesis. Major critical questions are discussed in the introductions and additional notes, while undue technicalities ...