By Walter Houston
The excellence among fresh and unclean animals, most likely originating in tensions among shepherds and farmers, is within the biblical legislation of Leviticus eleven and Deuteronomy 14 reworked into a huge theological precept. during this wide-ranging and assuredly written learn, Houston argues that the avoidance of 'unclean' meals is a mark of the unique devotion of Israel to 1 god. In a concluding bankruptcy, it is strongly recommended that the abolition of the excellence in early Christianity corresponds to the common horizon of the hot religion.
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Verses l-2a. Verses 1, 2a integrate the chapter into the narrative structure of Leviticus. It is the first torah given by Yahweh after the ordination of Aaron as High Priest, and Aaron is associated with Moses in the address for the first time in Leviticus (cf. Exod. 1, 43). 1 This is obvious for the second half of the chapter, where the instructions concern uncleanness 1. Nevertheless, as Roger Tomes has pointed out to me, there are many places introducing ritual instructions which do not mention Aaron, and the possibility that this reflects different strata in P should be borne in mind.
42aa expands this by using a type of classification similar to those used earlier in the chapter, based on how the animal 'goes'—on its belly, on four legs or on many. However, the classification is of no practical significance; all alike are abhorrent and forbidden; v. 42a0b resumes the general statement of v. 41. These verses promote the rejection of the teeming things of the ground from unconscious or at least implicit status to explicit prohibition. d) we shall have to inquire what made this necessary.