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The Encyclopaedia of Judaism provides a full and reliable account of Judaism, the religion, its diverse history, literature, beliefs, observances, practices, and its place in the context of society and culture from ancient Israelite times to our own day. By reason of its antiquity, influence on other world religions, power to persuade the faithful of its truth, and contemporary vitality, Judaism...

keeping it, levitical religion in principle has no religious need for a redeemer, savior, or messiah. The consistent message of the priestly editing of Scripture is that so long as the altar is effective, Israel’s relationship with God is secure. In levitical religion, there is nothing religious a messiah can do that the altar cannot do. A redeemer is religiously unnecessary. Rabbinic Judaism is the primary heir and continuator of the levitical religion represented in Scripture. Emerging from the
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