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For over one hundred years, International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological—to help the reader understand the meaning of Old and New Testament books. The new commentaries continue this tradition. New evidence is incorporated and...

the perfect type of sacrifice, because the burning of the entire carcass both symbolized and effected the complete and irreversible making over of the gift to God. However, within that rite, the presenting of the blood of the lamb had a particular purpose, ‘to make atonement’ for sin (ἐξιλασάσθαι, Lev 1:4), for ‘it is blood that makes atonement’ in that the sprinkling of the blood upon the altar presupposed, and symbolized, the irrevocable surrender of the living animal to God (Lev 17:11).40 If
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