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The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures is an academic, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the Hebrew Bible, and provides a forum for critical scholarly exchange. The Logos edition of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures includes all the articles and reviews from 1996 to 2007, giving you access to the most important contributions to Hebrew scholarship from the past decade! You’ll find hundreds of...

ARON PINKER SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, U.S.A. The ritual of the scapegoat is described in Lev 16:5–26. Each step of the ritual is clear, yet it remains enigmatic to this day.1 Ehrlich succinctly summarized the situation saying, “Azazel—No one knows who he is or what he is. What previous scholarship said about him has no substance and cannot be relied upon.”2 This is also true at the present time, almost a century later. Scholars focused their
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