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Levitical rules and regulations can at first appear irrelevant to contemporary Christians—but they provide important Old Testament background for understanding large portions of the New Testament. Leviticus describes a point in human history when God came and dwelt in the midst of the ancient Israelites and taught them what their purpose in life really was. Jay Sklar’s commentary makes clear what...

state of being. Indeed, to understand impurity better, it is important to talk about the concept of ‘ritual states’, a concept very familiar to the ancient Israelites and their neighbours (Milgrom, 1991: 932–933) and familiar to many cultures today (Milgrom, 1991: 764–765), even if it is very unfamiliar to many others. So what exactly is a ‘ritual state’? Generally speaking, there were three ritual states in Israel: the impure, the pure and the holy (sometimes known as
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