many respects not only dependent on but also culled from the disciplined and creative scholarship of those who have been my teachers in reading Leviticus. In the wake of their work, what follows may be described with the analogy of simply rearranging the furniture in a house already long occupied. Even so, as every potential home owner knows, envisioning how to rearrange what you see to make it more hospitable for your own dwelling is often an important part of deciding whether to make the purchase