S. Tamar Kamionkowski 
Leviticus [EPUB ebook] 

Contents

 List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors x

Foreword
“Tell It on the Mountain”—or, “And You Shall Tell Your Daughter [as Well]”

Athalya Brenner-Idan

Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary:
“She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25)

Barbara E. Reid, OP

Acknowledgments

Author’s Introduction:
Reading Leviticus with a Feminist Lens

Leviticus 1:1–3:17
Offerings, Offerers, and Considerations of Gender

Leviticus 4:1–6:7
Something New: Purification and Guilt

Leviticus 6:8–7:38
Another Perspective on Offerings, or What’s In It for the Priests?

Leviticus 8:1–10:20
Coming Into and Managing Power

Leviticus 11:1-47
If You Must Eat Meat, Then . . .

Leviticus 12:1–15:33
Bodies and Access to the Holy

Leviticus 16:1-34
Purifying the Sancta: “It Takes a Village”

Leviticus 17:1-16
A Bloody Mess

Leviticus 18:1–20:27
From Ritual Impurity to Ethical Transgressions

Leviticus 21:1–22:33
Protecting Priestly Privilege

Leviticus 23:1–25:55
Sacred Time, Space, Speech, and Land

Leviticus 26:1-46
Eco-Friendly Blessings and Curses of Chaos

Leviticus 27:1-34
How Much Is a Woman Really Worth?

Postscript

Works Cited

Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings

Index of Subjects

Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a Ph D in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015.