the effect of eviscerating the enduring power of the text, as the lessons themselves become timeworn and limited. Origen and the rabbis at least maintained the details of the text as concrete indicators of specific religious disciplines. Now it is the disciplines themselves that lie in ruins. The pedagogical theory, in any case, tends to something other than the Christ. This is why, however useful and perhaps necessary it is to take the historical details of Leviticus seriously enough as to found