Leviticus

Introduction and Historical Background to the Book of Leviticus

• Zipor, M. A. "The Greek Version of Leviticus." Biblica 79 (1998): 551-562.
• Hanson, K. C. "Blood and Purity in Leviticus and Revelation." originally published in Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 28 (1993): 215-230.
• Mattfeld y de la Torre, Walter Reinhold Warttig. "Dating the Pentateuch: The Book of Leviticus, the Archaeological Anomalies and Anachronisms."
• Heger, P. "Source of Law in the Biblical and Mesopotamian Law Collections." Biblica 86, no. 3 (2005): 324-342. (pdf)
• Haas, Peter J. "The Sacred and the Mundane: The Message of Leviticus." The Christian Century. (October 1997).
• Lee, Bernon P. "Reading Law and Narrative: The Method and Function of Abstraction." Ph.D. Dissertation. Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, 2003.
• A Collection of Articles on Leviticus - Ted Hildebrandt at Gordon College.
• Gardiner, Frederic. "The Relation of Ezekiel to the Levitical Law." Journal of Biblical Literature 1 (1881): 172-205. (pdf)
• Leder, Arie C. and David A. Vroege. "Reading and Hearing Leviticus." Calvin Theological Journal 34 (1999): 431-442. (pdf)
• Peritz, Ismar J. "Woman in the Ancient Hebew Cult." Journal of Biblical Literature 17 (1898): 111-148. (pdf)
• Barrick, William D. An Introduction to the Book of Leviticus. (pdf)
• Sailhammer, John H. "The Mosaic Law and the Theology of the Pentateuch." Westminster Theological Journal 53 (1991): 241-261. (pdf)
• Wenham, Gordon. "The Theology on Unclean Food," Evangelical Quarterly 53, no. 1 (1981): 6-15.

Commentaries

• Knobel, August Wilhelm. Die Bücher Exodus und Leviticus.
• Driver, Samuel Rolles. The Book of Leviticus: A New English Translation, Printed in Colors Exhibiting the Composite Structure of the Book [incl. notes/commentary]
• Bonar, Andrew A. A Commentary on the Book of Leviticus Expository and Practical, with Critical Notes. 4th ed. London: J. Nisbet, 1861.
  

Leviticus 1-7

• Landy, Francis. "Leviticus, Deconstruction and the Body." Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 2 (1998-99). (pdf)
• Kurtz, J. H. Sacrifical Worship of the Old Testament. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark [reprinted Baker, 1980], 1863. (pdf)

Leviticus 8-10

• Sprinkle, Joe M. "The Rationale of the Laws of Clean and Unclean in the Old Testament." Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 43 (2000): 637-657. (pdf)
• Beal, Timothy K. and Tod Linafelt. "Sifting for Cinders: Strange Fires in Leviticus 10:1-5." Semeia 69-70 (1995): 19-32.
• Klingbeil, Gerald. "The Anointing of Aaron: A Study of Leviticus 8:12 In Its OT and ANE Context." Andrews University Seminary Studies 38, no. 2 (2000): 431-442. (pdf)

Leviticus 11-15

• Douglas, Mary. "The Abominatio of Leviticus." In Community, Identity, and Ideology: Social Scientific Approach to the Hebrew Bible, ed. Charles E. Carter and Carol L. Meyers, 119-134. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbruans, 1996. This essay was reprinted with permission from Purity and Danger: An Anaysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966), 41-57.
• Maier, Gerald. "On Contagions: Leviticus and the Fascination of the Abomination." Journal for Culture and Religious Theory 2, no. 2 (2001).
• Jastrow, M. "The So-Called 'Leprosy' Laws." Jewish Quarterly Review (1913-14): 357-418. (pdf)
• Key, Thomas and Robert Allen. "The Levitical Dietary Laws in the Light of Modern Science." Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 26 (1974): 61-64. (pdf)
• Masterman, E. "Hygiene and Disease in Palestine in Modern and in Biblical Times. (Pt 1)." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 50 (1918): 13-20. (pdf)
• Masterman, E. "Hygiene and Disease in Palestine in Modern and in Biblical Times. (Pt 2)." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 50 (1918): 56-71. (pdf)
• Masterman, E. "Hygiene and Disease in Palestine in Modern and in Biblical Times. (Pt 3)." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 50 (1918): 112-119. (pdf)
• Ryrie, Charles C. "The Cleansing of the Leper." Bibliotheca Sacra 113 (1956): 262-267. (pdf)
• Cochrane, R. G. Biblical Leprosy: A Suggested Interpretation London: The Tyndale Press, 1963. (pp. 24)

Leviticus 16

• De Roo, Jacqueline C. R. "Was the Goat for Azazel Destined for the Wrath of God?" Biblica 81 (2000): 233-242.
• Feinberg, Charles L. "The Scapegoat of Leviticus Sixteen." Bibliotheca Sacra 115 (1958): 320-233. (pdf)
• Helm, Robert. "Azazel in Early Jewish Tradition." Andrews University Seminary Studies 32, no. 3 (1994): 217-226. (pdf)
• Hubbard, R. L. "The Go'el in Ancient Israel: Theological Reflections on an Israelite Institution." BBR 1 (1991): 3-19. (pdf)
• Rodriguez, Angel M. "Leviticus 16: Its Literary Structure." Andrews University Seminary Studies 34, no. 2 (1996); 269-286. (pdf)

Leviticus 17-27

• Carmichael, C. "The Sabbatical/Jubilee Cycle and the Seven-Year Famine in Egypt." Biblica 80 (1999).
• Bergsma, John Sietze. "The Jubilee: A Post-Exilic Priestly Attempt to Reclaim Lands?" Biblica 84, no. 2 (2003): 225-246.
• Ramey, William D. "The Name of the LORD: A Sacred Trust: Lev 24:10-23." (pdf)
• Barrick, William D. "Leviticus 26: Its Relationship to Covenant Contexts and Concepts." Th.D. Dissertation. Grace Theological Seminary, 1981. (pdf)
• Barrick, William D. "The Eschatological Significance of Leviticus 26." Paper presented at the National Evangelical Theological Society, Nov. 1999. (pdf)
• Barrick, William D. "Inter-Covenantal Truth and Relevance: Leviticus 26 and the Biblical Covenants." 1999.
• Cole, H. R. "The Sabbath and the Alien." Andrews University Seminary Studies 38, no. 2 (2000): 223-229. (pdf)
• Hui, Timothy K. "The Purpose of Israel's Annual Feasts." Bibliotheca Sacra 147 (1990): 143-154. (pdf)
• Master, John R. "The Place of Chapter 24 in the Structure of the Book of Leviticus." Bibliotheca Sacra 159 (Oct 2002): 415-424. (pdf)
• Moore, M. "Haggo'el: The Cultural Gyroscope of Ancient Hebrew Society." Restoration Quarterly 23 (1980): 27-35. (pdf)
• Paton, Lewis B. "The Holiness-Code and Ezekiel." The Presbyterian and Reformed Review 26 (1896): 98-115. (pdf)
• Strawn, Brent. "The X-Factor: Revisioning Biblical Holiness." Asbury Theological Journal 54, no. 2 (1999): 73-92. (pdf)
• Ukleja, P. Michael. "Homosexuality and the Old Testament." Bibliotheca Sacra 140 (1983): 256-266. (pdf)
• De Young, James. "A Critique of Prohomosexual Interpretations of the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha." Bibliotheca Sacra 147 (1990): 437-454. (pdf)
• Wenham, Gordon. "The Old Tesament Attitude to Homosexuality." Expository Times 102 (1991): 259-263.
• Unger, Merrill F. "The Signifcance of the Sabbath." Bibliotheca Sacra 123 (1966): 51-59. (pdf)
• Kaiser, Walter J., Jr. "Leviticus 18:5 and Paul: Do This and you Shall Live (Eternally?)." JETS 14, no. 1 (1971): 19-28.

Bibliographies

• A Working Bibliography on the Book of Leviticus - Hymes