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For most Christians today, there is no message of the book of Leviticus, for it often goes unread. Yet Leviticus was the first priority in Jewish instruction of the law of Moses. Jesus and His hearers knew Leviticus well and took its teachings to heart. The Documentary Hypothesis (separate JEDP portions later redacted) that reigned supreme over Pentateuchal studies for most of the twentieth...

partly so that life, and especially human life, could flourish once again on earth after the near-total destruction of the flood. Those who regard the regulations of Leviticus 17 as forbidding the Israelites to kill any animal except in the context of a fellowship meal see them as underlining this message about the sanctity of life and as illustrating God’s desire that animal life should prosper. But one does not have to adopt this narrow interpretation to see the whole tenor of these regulations
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