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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...

In a sense most of the conclusions of our study of the hattat are incorporated in our interpretation of the day of Atonement ceremony in the previous Chapter. So here we shall outline those conclusions more systematically in accordance with the problems posed at the beginning of the study, which can be classified largely into two areas: 1. the basic function of the hattat; 2. the rationale of the variety of ritual types. 1. חטאת should be translated, as Barr and Milgrom suggest, ‘purification
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