The Sacrificial Laws Of Leviticus And The Joseph Story Calum Carmichael by Calum Carmichael 9781107189676, 9781316995396, 9781108103152, 9781108100359, 1107189675, 1316995399, 1108103154, 110810035X instant download after payment.

This book offers a new assessment of the Joseph story from the perspective of the biblical laws in Leviticus 1-10. Of interest to professors and students of humanities, religion, law; also religious professionals and laypersons interested in biblical studies.Biblical laws are extraordinarily sophisticated. They connect to a
storyline, the Primary History , Genesis through 2 Kings, 1 which is
packed with incidents upon which each of the laws passes judgment.
This combination of narrative, ethical, and legal texts constitutes
a body of material that is interconnected in a much more detailed
and coherent way than has been realized to date. The resulting product,
the Primary History, is not just a legendary saga with its own
built- in ethical and legal rules (as is true of any narrative writing),
but also, and surprisingly, a saga that contains sequences of rules
(in Genesis through Deuteronomy) with which it is integrally intertwined.
Conveying historical, semi- historical, mythical, and legendary
events, the overarching storyline incorporates over 400 laws. Once
their details are unpacked in light of the storyline, a quite new understanding
emerges of how profoundly, indeed, inseparably linked are
the narrative and legal elements in the text. Down the centuries interpreters,
treating the laws largely separate from the narratives, have
attributed to many laws, especially those in Leviticus, strange, even
mysterious and magical elements from a lost past beyond rational
inquiry. In every instance, however, even these supposedly strange
rules make good, graspable, and readily intelligible sense. 2