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The Function of the Nazirite's Concluding Purification Offering

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Number 6:13-20 outlines a ceremony, including a purification offering (vv. 14, 16), to be performed at the end of a successfully completed Nazirite period. The purpose of this mandatory purification offering constitutes a crux. For what nondefiant sin or sever physical ritual impurity- the evils remedied by non-calendric purification offerings elsewhere (e.g. Lev 4:1- 5:13; 12:6-8; 14:19)- could such a sacrifice expiate in this context? The answer to this question may affect or at least test our understasnding of purification offerings in general.

Journal Title

Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible

First Page

9

Last Page

17

Book Title

Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible

Editor

Naphtali S. Meshel, Jeffrey Stackert, David P. Wright, Baruch J. Schwartz

Publisher

T & T Clark

City

New York

Series

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: 474

ISBN

9780567028327

First Department

Old Testament

Link to Full Text

@ the James White Library

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