Leviticus

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I'll give you the quick rundown on Leviticus, which I learned from a Christian Jew, learned in the Hebrew, who makes a living repairing copies of the Torah.
The Torah has five books, and in the middle of the middle book we find a passage sometimes called the heart of the Torah, "and ye shall be holy, for I am holy" (Leviticus 11:44). Leviticus is the book, out of all the others in the Hebrew scriptures, which instructs God's people on how to be holy. It does so by giving a lengthy set of commandments and prescriptions, which if followed are sufficient to make God's people holy.
The commandments fall into three major categories: proper diet, proper sex, and proper worship. And so there are three organs of holiness in the human body: the belly, the loins, and the knees. The belly- what one eats and drinks; the loins, one's sexual conduct; the knees, what one bows down to worship. And so in Leviticus we find dietary restrictions, no pork, no shellfish. We find rules for sexual conduct, no homosexuality, no bestiality, no close relatives. And we find many ordinances and ceremonies detailing proper worship of YHWH.
Note the impact of all of this on the New Testament. The Pharisees were legalists, and believed that by strictly observing the Law they could be holy. In one instance, the scribes and Pharisees criticized Jesus' disciples for not observing lengthy ceremonial washings prior to eating- remember, the belly is one of the organs of holiness. But then Jesus comes out with his masterful teaching, "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man" (Matthew 15:10). Jesus takes the legalistic reading of the Torah espoused by the scribes and Pharisees and breathes life into it, the new life of spirit and not the oldness of letter. He reminds them that the great two commandments are not rules to be checked off a list, but to love God (here he quotes the Shema, Deuternomy 6:5) and to love one's neighbor as oneself (Leviticus 19:18).
Much of the conflict in the New Testament, then, amounts to exegetical disputes around the Torah. If you want to understand it, and you should, you need to read the Pentateuch through and through.

>Animal sacrifice indistinguishable from that of Mediterranean polytheists
so this...is the power...of monotheism...#woah

I have a book on Canaanite sacrificial inscriptions, they describe literally the same stuff as in the Bible. They even had religious booths for an Autumn festival, just like the jewish Sukkoth.

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>it's Malkovich's brother, Dewski

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Skip it, Jeremiah 7:21-22
21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

God pretty much forgot that part too.

is that Dewey or the Gummo kid

>Leviticus is only about sacrifice

>these are the same people that call JP a pseud

If God said the first seven chapters are bullshit, then I'll throw out the whole book of Lev. Then christians can even move on from hating gays and focusing on the true enemy, literacy and chronology.

*start focusing (we all make grammar mistakes, right god?)

>If God said the first seven chapters are bullshit
Except he didn't do that. The KJ translation is a bullshit one that is actively discouraged as a window into what the bible actually says.
Even with that you misinterpret Jeremiah in the translation you present. Jeremiah 7:21 is literally just saying add your sacrifices with your food and then eat it, not that sacrifices shouldn't be made. biblehub.com/jeremiah/7-21.htm
Here are over 20 other translations which prove my point.
As for Jeremiah 7:22 I quote the NIV which is the translation preferred in academia because of its accuracy to the original. "For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices".
The KJ and most older translations distort the actual message of the Old Testament because of their Christian faith.

I'm glad God gave you the right version with the right words, and now you have given it to me. The NIV cleared all the other inconsistencies and contradictions too. Thanks buddy.

>he thinks that engineering faith is preferable to Christian faith for translating Christian works
>Contemporary Idiolect Faith

Shit, if you made it through Exodus, Leviticus should be a breeze.

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>hold a candle
>calm down jack
but why wou

>I quote the NIV which is the translation preferred in academia
NRSV and RSV are used in academia, the NIV really sucks.