Sentences with phrase «leviticus in the holiness»

-- especially when, as most of you would know, the law prohibiting homosexual behavior is imbedded in a context in Leviticus in the holiness code, the purity code, as it's sometimes called, which also prohibits the planting of two kinds of seed in the same field, or the wearing of garments made of two kinds of cloth.

Not exact matches

I do remember to have a sign that says «holiness to the Lord» in Leviticus... but Mormons have that on their temples.

In response to the crisis of displacement, the Book of Leviticus advocates stringent notions of holiness.

In the Book of Leviticus another group of laws is called the Holiness Code.

And although there were no female priests, the divorced and widowed daughters of priests ate temple food that was forbidden to lay people (Leviticus 22:13), so they were not perceived to be lacking in holiness.

The nearest approach in the Old Testament to the saying about being perfect or merciful is the basic principle of the Holiness Code of Leviticus (19:2 etc.): «You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.»

These commandments are probably based on the holiness code in Leviticus and combine minimal dietary regulations with matrimonial injunctions (Lev.

By this we do not mean just the temporal development that historical criticism discerns in the redaction of these codes, the evolution of moral ideas that may be traced out from the first Decalogue to the Law of the Covenant, on the one hand, and from the Decalogue itself through the restatements and amplifications of the book of Deuteronomy to the new synthesis of the «Holiness Code» in the book of Leviticus and the legislation subsequent to Ezra, on the other; more important than this development of the content of the Law is the transformation in the relationship between the faithful believer and the Law.

It was in the Exile that the «Holiness Code» of Leviticus (Leviticus, chaps.

The two passages in the Leviticus holiness code (Lev.

A handful of scholars have argued that Deuteronomy was not in existence in Josiah's day and that Josiah's reform program was shaped by the J legislation in Exodus 12 and 32 - 34; or a brief collection of Jeremiah's oracles; or the Holiness Code of Leviticus 17 - 26 (conventionally dated in the sixth century, of course); or, if any part of Deuteronomy, then chapters 5 - 11 only.

An important clement in the difference between the codes of Exodus and Deuteronomy is the emergence between them of classical prophetism; Leviticus 19, in the still later Holiness Code, reflects the further development of prophetism's theological ethic.

Still later, in a third major Old Testament collection of torah known as the Holiness Code, Leviticus 17 - 26, the very institution of the slavery of an Israelite to an Israelite is abolished (Lev.

In this consummately theological conception of the function of Israel's existence and of the force and sanction of her torah, it is no wonder that the Holiness Code embraces in Leviticus 19 the Old Testament's supreme articulation of the theological ethiIn this consummately theological conception of the function of Israel's existence and of the force and sanction of her torah, it is no wonder that the Holiness Code embraces in Leviticus 19 the Old Testament's supreme articulation of the theological ethiin Leviticus 19 the Old Testament's supreme articulation of the theological ethic.