RELIGST 2DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Holiness Code, Food And Drink Prohibitions
7 Apr 2016
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Land and people = worth, value, life. Biology ane needed to be sure not to marry outside one"s group. A waste of seed lack of children. If israelites commit this, they will be vomited out. Why religious pollution: they are against the divine, cosmic, patriarchal order. Various sexual encounters that are unproductive (canaanite) Recognition of the sacredness of life (cid:1) (cid:1) Distinguish between cultically (religiously) clean and unclean (11. 46-47) (heb) qadosh = set apart (sometimes translated as holy ) Lev 19. 2: you shall be set apart because i yhwh your god is set apart . Observing strict rules of purity (for personal national survival) 18: sex that does not result in children (waste of seed, too close of relationship (cid:1) (cid:1) No command not to have sex with one"s daughter. Women who were not owned by a man: Appendix values of people who pledge themselves as a donation to the sanctuary. Pledges for one"s self or donation to the sanctuary.
