between these two forms of command but presents them jointly while ignoring many ethical categories that we usually regard as essential” (such as those individualistic notions of guilt and responsibility); to put it positively, Leviticus has “an integrated cultic and ethical perspective.”36 The interweaving of purity concerns and ethical concerns (as we distinguish them) then makes it harder to reduce the latter to a “self-propelled human crusade.”37 Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells generated a
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