Naked Bible 79: Leviticus 17-18

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

These two chapters launch that portion of Leviticus (17-26) that scholars refer to as the Holiness Code. The Holiness Code is oriented by the idea that the people of Israel bear the responsibility for holiness, a concept expressed in Lev 19:2 (“You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy”). Though rare in Leviticus and the rest of the Torah, this statement is stated repeatedly in the holiness code (e.g., Lev 17:1; 18:1; 19:2; 20:2; 22:17). In terms of chapters 17 and 18, the episode focuses on the heinousness of personal worship violations against Yahweh (ch. 17), punishable by “cutting off” (Hebrew: karat), and the logic behind forbidden sexual unions (ch. 18). paper referenced: Hahn Bergsma Noahs nakedness and the curse on Canaan

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0:26.5	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast episode 79, Leviticus 17 and 18.
0:32.0	I'm your layman, Tray Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:35.6	Hey, Mike, how you doing?
0:36.8	Very good.
0:37.8	Good to hear from you again, Tray.
0:38.8	All right.
0:39.8	Well, we're back here in Leviticus.
0:41.8	So today we're going to cover 17 and 18.
0:44.0	Believe it or not, there's actually a pretty good amount to cover here.
0:47.9	So we're not going to go through everything as our format is typical.
0:52.6	We'll float through the chapter and pull out this through that.
0:55.7	I think people will find interesting.
0:58.0	And there are a number of things I think people will find interesting in these two chapters.
1:02.3	So just to situate them a little bit, Leviticus 17 through 26 is the section of the book
1:08.3	that scholars refer to as the holiness code.
1:12.6	And really that's because these chapters 17 through 26 focus on the people of Israel
1:19.1	collectively in terms of a collective or corporate responsibility to be holy.
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