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Leviticus 1–16: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

At the beginning of his academic career, author Jacob Milgrom determined to make his lifework a probing study of the Laws of the Torah. Here, with Leviticus 1–16, the first of three volumes on Leviticus, he has reached the pinnacle of his long pursuit. No other contemporary commentary matches Milgrom’s comprehensive work on this much misunderstood and often underappreciated biblical book. In...

A final remark on the immediately preceding words, the concluding verses of Exodus (Exod 40:36–38), is in order. By their content (Israel’s guidance by the divine firecloud stated in full in Num 9:15–23) and by their language (the verbs are imperfects interrupting the narrative) these verses are clearly an interpolation. Furthermore, they only summarize Num 9:15–23. Why the need for this patent redundancy? The answer is crucial to an understanding of the redaction of Leviticus and its place within
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