Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexuality” as we now understand it – as the caring, loving and sexual relationship between people of the same sex. These texts are about relationships that cross boundaries of purity (between clean and unclean) and ethnicity (...
Did God create disorder and chaos? What does it actually mean to be evil? And how do you tell your kids that in the Bible dragons are actually the “bad guys”? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from the first half of the Chaos Drago
[12] And yet, Deuteronomy 23:19 shares one intriguing feature with the two Priestly verses in Leviticus: toʿevah vocabulary. Verse 19 ends by declaring the wages and fees of both the zonah and the kelev to be abominations to God.[13] But what does the term toʿevah mean in ...
Leviticus Q+R This summer we've been releasing a Q+R series we did on Youtube covering hard questions in the Old Testament. This week we are in the book of Leviticus, a very confusing, very ancient book. Tim and Jon discuss issues about being "unclean" in the Old Testament, whether ...
7.The Old Testament describes both Noah (Genesis 6:9) and Job (Job 1:1), as “perfect” and Abram was commanded to be “perfect” (Genesis 17:1). Even animal sacrifices were expected to be “perfect” (Leviticus 22:21). See Johannes Botterweck, Ringgren Helmer, and Heinz-Josef Fabry...
“You shall not make ANY CUTTINGS IN YOUR FLESH for the dead, nor TATTOO ANY MARKS on you: I am the Lord” (Leviticus 19:28) “Do NOT think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did NOT come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and...
A while ago, I read Jen Wilkin’s bookNone Like Himabout the attributes of God. One is His incomprehensibility. In it, she says, “God is incomprehensible. This does not mean that he is unknowable, but that he is unable to be fully known.” ...
Rather, it appears in a long list of rules about how we eat, something everyone does, every single day. Rabbi Billy Dreskin writes of this peculiarity: “Leviticus is not the most exciting of books in the Torah, and the laws of kashrut are less so. But Leviticus is about life’s ...
Leviticus 17:10-13, 14 (NLT) “And if any native Israelite or foreigner living among you eats or drinks blood in any form, I will turn against that person and cut him off from the community of your people, for the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on...
Later, when God brought his people out of Egyptand established a covenant with them, he did command his people to offer sacrifices to him as part of that covenant. Large passages of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy are filled with instructions on sacrifices, detailing what animals or how muc...