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Sin - Offering or Purification - Offering ?

Sin - Offering or Purification - Offering ? 237 The midrashic stories thus correlate nicely with the idiomatic inter- pretation and add their weight to it. Finally, the idiomatic interpretation is so firmly established in Leviticus that it should be accepted as the normal one unless some other meaning is demanded by the context. The reverse, however, is true here. Rather than creating additional problems, the idiomatic interpretation explains the difficulties of the tradition. One has only to view v. 23, which tells how Shem and Japheth covered their father's nakedness, as a later addition by someone who did not understand the idiom. Gaffney, S.C. FREDERICK W. BASSETT SIN - OFFERING OR PURIFICATION - OFFERING ? To my knowledge, all the versions and translations, old and new, render the pa//a'! sacrifice as "sin offering". This translation is in- accurate on all grounds: contextually, morphologically and etymo- logically. The very range of the hatta't in the cult gainsays the notion of sin. For example, this offering is enjoined upon recovery from childbirth (Lev. xii), the safe completion of the nazirite vow (Num. vi) and the dedication of the newly constructed altar (Lev. viii 15; see Exod. xxix 36 f.). In other words, the hatta't is prescribed for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

Sin - Offering or Purification - Offering ?

Milgrom, J.
Vetus Testamentum , Volume 21 (2): 237 – Jan 1, 1971
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© 1971 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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237 The midrashic stories thus correlate nicely with the idiomatic inter- pretation and add their weight to it. Finally, the idiomatic interpretation is so firmly established in Leviticus that it should be accepted as the normal one unless some other meaning is demanded by the context. The reverse, however, is true here. Rather than creating additional problems, the idiomatic interpretation explains the difficulties of the tradition. One has only to view v. 23, which tells how Shem and Japheth covered their father's nakedness, as a later addition by someone who did not understand the idiom. Gaffney, S.C. FREDERICK W. BASSETT SIN - OFFERING OR PURIFICATION - OFFERING ? To my knowledge, all the versions and translations, old and new, render the pa//a'! sacrifice as "sin offering". This translation is in- accurate on all grounds: contextually, morphologically and etymo- logically. The very range of the hatta't in the cult gainsays the notion of sin. For example, this offering is enjoined upon recovery from childbirth (Lev. xii), the safe completion of the nazirite vow (Num. vi) and the dedication of the newly constructed altar (Lev. viii 15; see Exod. xxix 36 f.). In other words, the hatta't is prescribed for

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Published: Jan 1, 1971

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