By Wilfried Warning
This research explores the vocabulary hired within the extant textual content of "Leviticus". the selected method of rhetorical research (with an emphasis upon terminological styles) indicates a gently composed textual content. the fundamental operating speculation that "Leviticus" has been artistically dependent round 37 divine speeches ("and the Lord spoke/sad to Moses (and Aaron)") with bankruptcy sixteen as its attainable structural and theological centre has been substantiated either at the microstructural and macrostructural degrees. The plethora of important micro- and macrostructural terminological styles indicates unique literary cohesiveness and therefore single-handed authorship. those findings are of distinctive importance concerning the so-called "P" and "H" passages, a "layer of priestly reworking", and, much more, the exegesis and theology of "Leviticus".
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Bartelmus, HYH, Bedeutung und Funktion eines althebräischen "Allerweltswortes": zugleich ein Beitrag zur Frage des hebräischen Tempussystems, ATSAT 17 (St. Ottilien: E O S Verlag, 1982). 128 Cf. J . F. A. Sawyer, "The Language of Leviticus,' יin Reading Leviticus: A Conversation with Mary Douglas, J S O T S u p 227, ed. J . F. A. " ing its vocabulary in a concordance, the preference for distinct literary devices—which are presented below—has become evident. It is exacdy the frequency of words, their respective position within a literary entity, and their structuring function that has to be dealt with.
With regard to the point of debate w h e t h e r the center or the outer m e m b e r s are being emphasized, two examples f r o m Leviticus indicate that both are true, simply d e p e n d i n g on the context. While in Lev 6:1-7:21 the root ק ד ש 151 D . J . Clark, "Criteria for Identifying Chiasm," LB 35 (1975): 63. , 66 (his emphasis). , 71-72. " 154 Radday, "Chiasmus," 51, states: "This leads to the second claim, that biblical authors a n d / o r editors placed the main idea, the thesis, or the turning point of each literary unit, at its center.
27-28 announcing Israel's servitude under Nebuchadnezzar are interlinked by means of the noun " עלyoke" (27:8, 11, 12; 28:2, 4, 11, 14); in the letter to the exiles in J e r 29 it is the name " ירושלםJerusalem" (vss. I 2 , 22, 4, 20, 25); in J e r 32, the purchase of the field, the noun " שדהfield" is present seven times (vss. 7, 8, 9, 15, 25, 43, 44). Jacob, Das erste Buch der Tora (Berlin: Schocken Verlag, 1934), 156-157, 235, 258, 309, 834-835; U. Cassuto, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis, vol.