When someone brings up Leviticus, I admit my mind turns almost automatically to the law of Moses,

which doesn't always seem like the most applicable thing to my life.

However, reframing Leviticus to be thinking about the atonement of our Savior, Jesus Christ,

I can't think of anything more important to me or to Latter-day Saints.

We'll discuss the end of the Book of Exodus and parts of Leviticus in this

episode of Abide, a Maxwell Institute podcast. My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public

communication specialist of the Neale-A Maxwell Institute for religious scholarship at Brigham Young

University. Christian Heel is a research fellow at the Maxwell Institute. In each week, we discuss

the week's block of reading from the

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, come follow me curriculum. We aren't here to present a lesson,

but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block so as to help fulfill the Maxwell

Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored gospel of

Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious ideas. Today we are joined by our colleague Dr. Jennifer Lane, a Neil A. Maxwell Research Associate

Associate at the Institute. Jennifer is Professor Emerita of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, Hawaii,

where she also served as Dean of Religious Education and Associate Academic Vice President for curriculum.

She has published extensively on the Latter-day Saints Scriptures and is the author of the recent

book Finding Christ in the Covenant Path, Ancient Insights for the Modern World, published

in 2020 by BYU's Religious Studies Center. Welcome, Jennifer, to the podcast.

Thank you, I'm delighted to be here. And we are thrilled to

have you. Now, Christian, what's going on in this block of scripture? So, John Goldingay

usefully outlines Leviticus in terms of the kinds of things that a priestly theologian might

want to stress. These are, he says, how to offer sacrifices,

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