Faculty Publications
The Function of the Nazirite's Concluding Purification Offering
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
June 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
Recommended Citation
Gane, Roy, "The Function of the Nazirite's Concluding Purification Offering" (2008). Faculty Publications. 139.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/old-testament-pubs/139
