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Ancient Israelite Cult in History, Tradition, and Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
Affiliation:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
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Review Essay
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 1994

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2. The commentary of Baruch Levine, another eminent authority on the Book of Leviticus and ancient Israelite cult, is also written to high scholarly standards, but is aimed at a less scholarly and specifically Jewish audience. It is therefore much narrower in scope and far less detailed. It also touches more directly on issues of contemporary Jewish interest. See B. A. Levine, The JPS Torah Commentary: Leviticus (Philadelphia, 1989). Since Levine and Milgrom often disagree, the serious reader will certainly want to refer to both volumes.

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15. For details, see my contribution to the upcoming J. Milgrom Festschrift

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