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The Purification Offering in the Priestly Literature: Its Meaning and Function is unavailable, but you can change that!

This academic work focuses on the concepts of atonement and sacrifice, using texts from the Pentateuch. Kiuchi looks at the differences between purification rites and those used for expiation. He discusses the Hebrew word, hattat, to discover if it is used mainly in instances of purification or atonement. A variety of interpretations are used to gain a fuller context of the source material. A...

its meaning. To this end we first survey the occurrences of the phrase in the priestly literature in general and then consider its meaning in this passage, Lev 10:17. The term עון basically means ‘iniquity’.35 But, being a dynamic concept and deep-rooted in Israelite Ganzheitsdenken, it expresses the iniquitous act and its consequence, or any combination of these ideas. Inevitably it must be translated ‘iniquity’, ‘guilt’, or ‘punishment’, according to the context. For convenience’s sake we adopt
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