Sentences with phrase «in the holiness code»

Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to homosexuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)

-- 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.

Those clobber passages are found in the Holiness Code and NOT the Moral Code.

19 (and less frequently elsewhere in the Holiness Code) the law is concluded with two or three Hebrew words, as a rule:» ani YHWH, «I (am) Yahweh,» or» aniYHWH» elohekem «I (am) Yahweh your God.»

In more gentle tones, with a reach of inspired compassion rarely matched in the Old Testament, it occurs again in the Holiness Code, Lev.

Note also that, while the word «abomination» has been used with reference to hom ose xuality, the biblical interpretation of the word «abomination» relates to any act of uncleanness as set out in the Holiness Code, such as eating shellfish, trimming your hair, touching the skin of a dead pig (should we stone the entire NFL?)

And the moral behavior mandated in the holiness code prepares God's people to become involved as witnesses to God's character and God's rule.

Not exact matches

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

In this light, the Holiness Code functions to establish Israel itself as a holy entity, as a community different in certain ways from other peopleIn this light, the Holiness Code functions to establish Israel itself as a holy entity, as a community different in certain ways from other peoplein certain ways from other peoples.

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.»

What, in this so - called «Holiness Code», as also penalized by death?

Rather the texts come from the Holiness Code in the Hebrew scriptures or from some of Paul's letters to the early Christians.

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

It is the covenant faith that appears to be most seriously modified, although again one must bear in mind the fact that the Holiness Code, for example, was incorporated with editorial additions in an otherwise consistently legalistic priestly writing.

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.

Most strikingly, however, it prescribes with the ritual requirements for meeting the restrictions created by Yahweh's holiness an even higher moral, social and ethical demand than is found in either of the other codes.

So much, in brief survey, of the ethical quality of three of the major codes — the Covenant Code, the Deuteronomic Code, and the Holiness Code.

They were, in fact, part of the holiness code prescribing how God's covenant people were to conduct themselves in distinction to the surrounding nations.

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

Ancient Israel took part in the terrible migrations of the late Bronze Age but also was set apart: In Israel's holiness code we first encounter the hope of an eventual end to crueltin the terrible migrations of the late Bronze Age but also was set apart: In Israel's holiness code we first encounter the hope of an eventual end to crueltIn Israel's holiness code we first encounter the hope of an eventual end to cruelty.

(See, for example, the Holiness Code in Lev.

Weil's moral absolutism remains a reproach to Jews who believe they can appropriate Israel's ethnicity (and perhaps its ethics) but dispense with its holiness code, and to Christians who seek redemption in their own ethnic roots rather than through adoption into the people of God.

The two passages in the Leviticus holiness code (Lev.

In this crisis, the Holiness Code, with some of its regulations reaching far back into Israel's ancient faith and practice, is freshly presented.

Verse 28 is a prohibition in support of authority, divine and human (the 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.

Thus and so shall you do (the Code embraces the full range of torah — cultic, ceremonial, civil, sociological, theological) because I am Yahweh, I am holy; and my holiness is fulfilled in you in honoring this torah; in obedience to this, you are holy, you appropriate my power, you conform to my character.

In the face of seeming certain death, annihilation, extinction, this faith in Lord and Covenant, in Yahweh and Word, this faith cast in history's fires, this one - track, obstinate Yahwism — this faith is articulated in the keynote of the Holiness CodIn the face of seeming certain death, annihilation, extinction, this faith in Lord and Covenant, in Yahweh and Word, this faith cast in history's fires, this one - track, obstinate Yahwism — this faith is articulated in the keynote of the Holiness Codin Lord and Covenant, in Yahweh and Word, this faith cast in history's fires, this one - track, obstinate Yahwism — this faith is articulated in the keynote of the Holiness Codin Yahweh and Word, this faith cast in history's fires, this one - track, obstinate Yahwism — this faith is articulated in the keynote of the Holiness Codin history's fires, this one - track, obstinate Yahwism — this faith is articulated in the keynote of the Holiness Codin the keynote of the Holiness Code:

In Jinchi's paintings, though, the words are gone; what was an indicator of the way to holiness now becomes a code without a subject.