General preface
Author's preface
Chief abbreviations
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Commentaries
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Introduction
1. Autorship and date
2. Style of language and style of thought
3. Structure
4. Direction-finders
5. The message of Leviticus
A. The manual of sacrifice; enjoying God's presence
1. Consecration to God: the burnt offering (1:1-17)
1. The Lord called (1:1)
2. When anyone among you brings an offering...(1:2)
3. If the offering is burnt offering...(1:3-17)
4. An aroma pleasing to the Lord
2. A gift for God: the grain offering (2:1-16)
1. Understanding the instructions
2. Understanding the significance
3. Fellowship with God: the peace offering (3: 1-17)
1. The procedures it follows
2. The purposes it served
3. The meaning it conveys
4. Forgiveness from God: the sin offering (4:1 - 5:13)
1. When was the offering presented?
2. Whom did the sin offering ransom?
3. How was the offering performed?
4. What does the offering achieve?
5. Why does the offering matter?
5. Amendment before God: the guilt offering (5:14-6:7)
1. The particular concerns of the guilt offering
2. The unique provisions of the guilt offering
3. The continuing relevance of the guilt offering
6. Instructed by God: the priests' responsibilities (6:8-7:38)
1. Keep the fire burning (6:8-13)
2. Keep the aroma pleasing (6:14-23)
3. Keep holy things safe (6:24-30)
4. Keep priests supplied (7: 1-10, 28-36)
5. Keep fellowship pure (7:11-27)
B. The manual of priesthood: entering God's service (8: 1-10:20)
7. Anoited for service (8:1-36)
1. Responding: as ordinary people they need to be called (8: 1-5)
2. Washing: as sinful people they need cleansing (8:6)
3. Clothing: as inadequate people they need equipping (8: 7-9, 13)
4. Anoiting: as unqualified people they need empowering (8:10-12)
5. Dedicating: as common people they need consecrating (8:14-30)
6. Waiting: as unpractised people they need moulding (8:31-36)
8. The glory of the Lord appeared (9: 1-24)
1. The promise of God's appearing (9:1-6)
2. The preparation for God's coming (9: 7-23)
3. The realization of God 's glory (9:23-24)
4. The unfolding of God's ways
9. Fire from the Lord (10:1-20)
1. Provoking the Lord (10:1-7)
2. Hearing the Lord (10:8-11)
3. Pleasing the Lord (10:12-20)
C. The manual of purity: encountering God's design (11:1 - 15:33)
10. Purity and the diet (11: 1-47)
1. Orientation: where do these issues fit?
2. Exploration: what does the text say? (11:1-47)
3. Explanation: why were the rules given?
4. Interpretation: how do the truths apply?
11. Purity and the body (12: 1-8; 15: 1-33)
1. Impurity caused by childbirth (12:1-8)
2. Impurity caused by bodily fluids (15:1-33)
3. Impurity and the new covenant
12. Purity and disease (13:1-14-57)
1. Dealing with infectious skin diseases (13:1-46)
2. Deling with contaminated fabrics (13: 47-59)
3. Dealing with healed people (14: 1-32)
4. Dealing with defiled buildings (14: 33-53)
5. Dealing with the continuing implications
D. The manual of atonement: ensuring God's forgiveness (16: 1-34)
13. For all the sins of Israel (16: 1-34)
1. Prologue: a solemn warning from God (16:3-14)
2. Drawing near: instructions from God (16: 23-28)
5. Epilogue: a lasting ordinance from God (16: 29-34)
6. A lasting ordinance?
E. The manuel of holiness: enacting God's word (17: 1-26: 46)
14. God's word about lifeblood (17: 1-16)
1. The actions it prohibits (17:1-16)
2. The principles it proclaims
15. God's word about family health (18:1-30)
1. Israel vocation (18: 1-5)
2. Sexual regulations (18: 6-23)
3. Closing exhortation (18:24-30)
16. God's word about society's welfare (19:1-37)
1. The heart of the matter: a call to holy living (19:2)
2. Foundation principles (19: 3-10)
3. Friendship issues (19:11-18)
4. Wider issues (19:19-37)
5. Conclusion
17. God's word about the penal code (20:1-27)
1. The chapter in context
2. The offences it catalogues
3. The punishments it prescribes
4. The principles it enshrines
18. God's word about spiritual leadership (21:1-22:33)
1. Personal qualifications (21:1-15)
2. Physical fitness (21: 16-24)
3. Professional conduct (22: 1-33)
4. Perfect fulfilment
19. God's word about times of celebration (23: 1-44)
1. The Sabbath: God rests (23:3)
2. The Passover: God delivers (23:4-5)
3. The Feast of unleavened Bread: God nourishes (23: 6-8)
4. The offering of firstfruits: God claims (23: 9-14)
5. The Feast of weeks: God provides 23: 15-22)
6. The Feast of Trumpets: God provides (23: 23-25)
7. The day of atonement: God forgives (23: 26-32)
8. The Feast of Tabernacles: God reminds (23:33-43)
20. God's word about sfeguarding the sacred (24: 1-23)
1. Saferguarding sacred objects (24: 1-9)
2. Saferguardig the sacred name (24: 10-23)
21. God's word about radical economics (25:1-55)
1. The sabbath year (25:1-7)
2. The Jubilee year (25: 8-55)
3. More than theory?
4. The continuing aplications
22. God's word about future prosperity (26:1-46)
1. If you follow... the blessings of obedience (26:3-13)
2. If you will not listen... the curces of disobedience (26: 14-39)
3. If you confess... the possibility of restoration (26:40-46)
4. If my people... today
F. The manual of dedication: enamoured of God's grace (27: 1-34)
23. God's word about consecration (Leviticus 27:1-34)
1. The provision God's makes (27:1-25)
2. The restrictions God imposes (27: 26-34)
3. The dedication God desires
Notes
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For most Christians today, there is no message of Leviticus, for Leviticus goes unread. Yet Leviticus was the first priority in Jewish instruction of the law of Moses. Jesus and his hearers knew Leviticus well and took its teachings to heart. The documentary hypothesis that reigned supreme over Pentateuchal studies for most of the twentieth century undercut the internal coherence of Leviticus that swayed the Jews of the New Testament period, speculating that rather than originating with Moses, Leviticus was the nostalgic revisionist history of Judaic reformers in exile. But more recently, such theories have fallen from favor, and Leviticus is being reconsidered for its historical representation of the ancient and foundational era of the Jews. Derek Tidball explores the picture in Leviticus of Israel being brought together under the law of Moses. Here is a definitive presentation of what life as the people of God was to be like: the civic, cultic, religious, moral, legal, family and ritual expectations of the covenant community. In accessible prose, Tidball reveals the message brought to the Jews by Leviticus in their day, making room for us to grasp its message to us in our day.