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Leviticus 23-27 - Briefly Noted - Book Review
Currents in Theology and Mission, Dec, 2002 by Ralph W. Klein
Leviticus 23-27. The Anchor Bible 3B. By Jacob Milgrom (Doubleday, $50). This is the third and final volume in the massive commentary on Leviticus by M. now totalling more than 2,700 pages! As with many other scholars, M. identifies chaps 17-27 as "H," but in distinction to many he puts H later than P--but both before the exile, concludes that H polemicizes against P, and H extends into Exodus and Numbers.
M. is the acknowledged master of knowledge about Israel's cultic life and controls not only all modem critical literature but medieval Jewish commentaries as well. M's translation of the entire book of Leviticus is included in this volume. The bibliography runs to eighty-six pages and the indexes to one hundred sixty pages! M. endorses the applicability of the biblical jubilee to the cancellation of international debt: "Thus the jubilee laws... offer a realistic blueprint for bridging the economic gap between the have and have-not nations, which otherwise portends political uprisings that can engulf the ent ire world." An excursus by Lisbeth S. Fried and David Noel Freedman argues that the jubilee year was in fact celebrated in Judah as early as the time of Hezekiah. M's lifetime of brilliant research here reaches an astounding climax.
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