The Old Testament
A Historical, Theological, and Critical Introduction
Chapter
3. Leviticus
Bible Reading Guide
- How much of the burnt offering is burnt on the altar?
- Every grain offering should include what additional ingredient?
- What specifically is burned from the fellowship offering?
- For the unintentional sin of an Israelite citizen what animal should be offered?
- What sacrifice is to be brought for the sin offering of Leviticus 5?
- What sacrifice is to be brought for the guilt offering of Leviticus 6?
- Which parts of the fellowship offering belong to the priests?
- What is the order of offerings for the ordination of the priests?
- On the eighth day of the priestly ordination, what is the order of sacrifices made for the people of Israel?
- What did God command Aaron and all priests after the deaths of his sons?
- What causes a clean animal to become unclean?
- How long after his birth is a boy to be circumcised?
- How long after a priest is given a garment with mildew must he wait before pronouncing it unclean?
- When a person is ceremonially cleansed from disease, what animals should they bring as an offering, if they are too poor to bring lambs?
- What causes a man and woman together to need to bathe and remain unclean until the evening?
- On the Day of Atonement, the blood of which offering is placed on the atonement cover?
- Which part of an animal must never be eaten?
- In the list of generally detestable things, which one is specifically called detestable?
- When a fruit tree is planted, what happens to the fruit harvested on the fourth year?
- To whom are Israelites warned against offering their children?
- For whose death can a priest make himself ceremonially unclean?
- What kind of offering can be made with a deformed animal?
- Which festival follows the Day of Atonement?
- What happened to the son of the Israelite woman who blasphemed the Name?
- What happens on the Year of Jubilee?
- In the curses of Leviticus, what happens to the land after the people are exiled to foreign lands?
- What belongs to Yahweh of all the produce of the land?
Study Questions
- Which chapters in Leviticus contain the Holiness Code?
- In the installation of the priests, who begins the process and leads the action?
- Christian interpreters used which New Testament book most with Leviticus?
- What is the traditional critical view of the date when anointing priests began?
- Following Hoffner, what is the basis for the selection of clean animals?
- Leviticus 23 and the Emar calendar are unique for what reason?
- Leviticus 1–6 present the sacrifices according to what arrangement?
- What may lie behind the absence of Israelite female priests?
- In terms of sacred space, what characterizes the place outside the camp?
- Similar to the priests being a subset of Israelites, which animals are a subset of clean ones?
- In comparison with Ugarit’s sacrificial cult, how may Israel’s be described?
- How do debt slaves in Israel contrast with those of Babylon who could only ever work off the interest on their debt?
- What contrasts Christ’s sacrifice with that of ancient Israel?
- How is the “defiant sin” forgiven?
- What was unique about the burnt offering?
- What does the holiness of the tabernacle correspond to in the New Testament?