Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond (Resources for Biblical Study)

New directions and fresh insight for scholars and students The single greatest catalyst and contributor to our developing understanding of priestly literature has been Jacob Milgrom (1923-2010), whose seminal articles, provocative hypotheses, and comprehensively probing books vastly expanded and significantly altered scholarship regarding priestly and related literature. Nineteen articles build on Milgrom's work and look to future directions of research. Essays cover a range of topics including the interpretation, composition and literary structure of priestly and holiness texts as well as their relationships to deuteronomic and extra-biblical texts. The book includes a bibliography of Milgrom's work published between 1994 and 2014. Features: Comparisons with Mesopotamian Hittite texts Essays from a diverse group of scholars representing a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and methodologies Charts and tables illustrate complex relationships and structures Tabernacle Or Tent Of Meeting? : The Dual Nature Of The Sacred Tent In The Priestly Texts / Michael B. Hundley -- What Is A Zoeme? : The Priestly Inventory Of Sacrificial Animals / Naphtali S. Meshel -- Women And The Purification Offering : What Jacob Milgrom Contributed To The Intersection Of Women's Studies And Biblical Studies / Elizabeth W. Goldstein -- Leviticus 22:24 : A Prohibition Of Gelding For The Land Of Israel? / Elaine Adler Goodfriend -- The Meeting Places Of God In The Land : Another Look At The Towns Of The Levites / Daniel I. Block -- Profane Versus Sacrificial Slaughter : The Priestly Recasting Of The Yahwist Flood Story / David P. Wright -- The Holiness School In Genesis? / Megan Warner -- The Composition Of Exodus 31:12-17 And 35:1-3 And The Question Of Method In Identifying Priestly Strata In The Torah / Jeffrey Stackert -- Didactic Logic And The Authorship Of Leviticus / Roy E. Gane -- Structure Is Theology : The Composition Of Leviticus / Moshe Kline -- Fundamental Structure As Methodological Control For Evaluating Introverted Literary Structures In Leviticus / Deborah L. Ellens -- Leviticus 19 As Mini-torah / David Tabb Stewart -- The End Of Korah And Others : Closural Conventions In Priestly Narratives Of Numbers / Susan Zeelander -- Leviticus 17, Where P, H, And D Meet : Priorities And Presuppositions Of Jacob Milgrom And Eckart Otto / Esias E. Meyer -- A Need For Hope? : A Comparison Between The Dynamics In Leviticus 26 And Deuteronomy 28-30 / Georg Fischer Sj -- For Instruction Shall Come Forth From Zion : Biblical And Mesopotamian Temples As Palaces Of Justice / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, [zal] -- Between ḥerem, Ownership, And Ritual : Biblical And Hittite Perspectives / Ada Taggar-cohen -- Purity And Persia / Thomas Kazen -- Intermarriage In The Temple Scroll : Strategies Of Neutralization / Hannah K. Harrington. Edited By Roy E. Gane And Ada Taggar-cohen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Tabernacle Or Tent Of Meeting? : The Dual Nature Of The Sacred Tent In The Priestly Texts / Michael B. Hundley -- What Is A Zoeme? : The Priestly Inventory Of Sacrificial Animals / Naphtali S. Meshel -- Women And The Purification Offering : What Jacob Milgrom Contributed To The Intersection Of Women's Studies And Biblical Studies / Elizabeth W. Goldstein -- Leviticus 22:24 : A Prohibition Of Gelding For The Land Of Israel? / Elaine Adler Goodfriend -- The Meeting Places Of God In The Land : Another Look At The Towns Of The Levites / Daniel I. Block -- Profane Versus Sacrificial Slaughter : The Priestly Recasting Of The Yahwist Flood Story / David P. Wright -- The Holiness School In Genesis? / Megan Warner -- The Composition Of Exodus 31:12-17 And 35:1-3 And The Question Of Method In Identifying Priestly Strata In The Torah / Jeffrey Stackert -- Didactic Logic And The Authorship Of Leviticus / Roy E. Gane -- Structure Is Theology : The Composition Of Leviticus / Moshe Kline -- Fundamental Structure As Methodological Control For Evaluating Introverted Literary Structures In Leviticus / Deborah L. Ellens -- Leviticus 19 As Mini-torah / David Tabb Stewart -- The End Of Korah And Others : Closural Conventions In Priestly Narratives Of Numbers / Susan Zeelander -- Leviticus 17, Where P, H, And D Meet : Priorities And Presuppositions Of Jacob Milgrom And Eckart Otto / Esias E. Meyer -- A Need For Hope? : A Comparison Between The Dynamics In Leviticus 26 And Deuteronomy 28-30 / Georg Fischer Sj -- For Instruction Shall Come Forth From Zion : Biblical And Mesopotamian Temples As Palaces Of Justice / Victor Avigdor Hurowitz ז״ל -- Between ḥerem, Ownership, And Ritual : Biblical And Hittite Perspectives / Ada Taggar-cohen -- Purity And Persia / Thomas Kazen -- Intermarriage In The Temple Scroll : Strategies Of Neutralization / Hannah K. Harrington. 880-01 Tabernacle or tent of meeting? : the dual nature of the sacred tent in the priestly texts -- Michael B. Hundley What is a zoeme? : the priestly inventory of sacrificial animals -- Naphtali S. Meshel Women and the purification offering : what Jacob Milgrom contributed to the intersection of women's studies and biblical studies -- Elizabeth W. Goldstein Leviticus 22:24 : a prohibition of gelding for the land of Israel? -- Elaine Adler Goodfriend "The meeting places of God in the land" : another look at the towns of the Levites -- Daniel I. Block Profane versus sacrificial slaughter : the priestly recasting of the Yahwist flood story -- David P. Wright The holiness school in Genesis? -- Megan Warner The composition of Exodus 31:12-17 and 35:1-3 and the question of method in identifying priestly strata in the Torah -- Jeffrey Stackert Didactic logic and the authorship of Leviticus -- Roy E. Gane Structure is theology : the composition of Leviticus -- Moshe Kline Fundamental structure as methodological control for evaluating introverted literary structures in Leviticus -- Deborah L. Ellens Leviticus 19 as mini-Torah -- David Tabb Stewart The end of Korah and others : closural conventions in priestly narratives of Numbers -- Susan Zeelander Leviticus 17, where P, H, and D meet : priorities and presuppositions of Jacob Milgrom and Eckart Otto -- Esias E. Meyer A need for hope? : a comparison between the dynamics in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28-30 -- Georg Fischer SJ "For instruction shall come forth from Zion" : biblical and Mesopotamian temples as palaces of justice -- Victor Avigdor Hurowitz [zal] Between ḥerem, ownership, and ritual : biblical and Hittite perspectives -- Ada Taggar-Cohen Purity and Persia -- Thomas Kazen Intermarriage in the Temple Scroll : strategies of neutralization -- Hannah K. Harrington. Cover Contents Abbreviations Introduction Bibliography of the Published Writings of Jacob Milgrom Part 1: Interpretation of Priestly and Holiness Texts Tabernacle or Tent of Meeting? What Is a Zoeme? Women and the Purification Offering Leviticus 22:24 “The Meeting Places of God in the Land” Part 2: Composition of Priestly and Holiness Texts Profane versus Sacrificial Slaughter The Holiness School in Genesis? The Composition of Exodus 31:12–17 and 35:1–3 Didactic Logic and the Authorship of Leviticus Part 3: Literary Structure of Priestly and Holiness Texts Structure Is Theology Fundamental Structure as Methodological Control Leviticus 19 as Mini-Torah The End of Korah and Others Part 4: Relationships between Priestly, Holiness, and Deuteronomic Texts Leviticus 17, Where P, H, and D Meet A Need for Hope? Part 5: Extrabiblical Texts Relating to Priestly Texts “For Instruction Shall Come Forth from Zion” Between Ḥerem, Ownership, and Ritual Purity and Persia Intermarriage in the Temple Scroll Contributors Index of Primary Texts Index of Modern Authors