Attendants of Yahweh's House: Priesthood in the Old Testament

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Volumn 24, Issue 85, 1999, Pages 3-24

  Leithart, Peter J ^a  

^a New St Andrews College   (United States)

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EID: 84992924116     PISSN: 03090892     EISSN: 14766728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030908929902408501     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. I. Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (trans. Theodore M. Greene and Hoyt H. Hudson; LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 2nd edn; 1960), p. 15 and passim.
2. Henning Graf Reventlow, The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World (trans. John Bowden; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.
3. F. Nietzsche, The Antichrist (trans. H.L. Mencken; Costa Mesa, CA: Noontide, 1988), pp. 50, 85-86, 121, 134.
4. M. Weber, The Sociology of Religion (trans. Ephraim Fischoff; Boston: Beacon Press, 1963), pp. 46–48.
5. John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), pp. 83–98.
6. R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions (trans. John McHugh; London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1961), p. 375.
7. De Vaux, Ancient Israel, pp. 373–76.
8. R.D. Nelson, Raising Up a Faithful Priest: COlllmunity alld Priesthood in Biblical Theology (Louisville, KY; Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993), pp. 102–103.
9. Nelson, Raising Up, p. 99.
10. Nelson, Raising Up, p. 129.
11. Nelson, Raising Up, p. 103, 105.
12. Nelson, Raising Up, p. 112–25.
13. Nelson, Raising Up, p. 103.
14. Nelson, Raising Up, p. 170–72.
15. Leopold Sabourin, Priesthood: A Comparative Study (Studies in the History of Religions, 25; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1973), p. 99.
16. Smith, ‘Priest, Priesthood (Hebrew)’, in J. Hastings (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1918), X, p. 308.
17. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr, and Bruce K. Waltke (eds.), Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (2 vols.; Chicago:Moody, 1980), I, p. 431.
18. W.W. Baudissin, Die Geschichte des altestamentlichen Priesterthums (Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1889), p. 269.
19. J. Auneau and Pierre-Marie Beaude, ‘Sacerdoce’, in L. Pirot (ed.), Supplement au Dictionnaire de la Bible (Paris: Letouzey & Ané, 1985), X, p. 1198.
20. The Westminster Shorter Catechism: The Confession of Faith (Glasgow: Free Presbyterian Publications, 1976), p. 293.
21. De Vaux, Ancient Israel, p. 357.
22. Auneau and Beaude, ‘Sacerdoce’, p. 1173.
23. Sabourin, Priesthood, p. 101.
24. De Vaux, Ancient Israel, p. 357.
25. Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1988), pp. 134, 136.
26. R. Abba, ‘Priests and Levites’, in IDB, IV, p. 877.
27. Aelred Cody, A History of Old Testament Priesthood (AnBib, 35; Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute Press, 1969), p. 29.
28. Aelred Cody, Ezekiel, With all Excursus on Old Testament Priesthood (Old Testament Message, 11; Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1984), p. 257.
29. Cody, A History, p. 74.
30. Cody, A History, pp. 119–20.
31. Christine Sourvinou-Inwood's criticisms of de Polignac's interpretation of Homeric sacrifice in ‘Early Sanctuaries, the Eighth Century and Ritual Space: Fragments of a Discourse’, in Nanno Marinatos and Robin Hägg (eds.), Greek Sanctuaries: New Approaches (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 1–5.
32. Sabourin, Priesthood, pp. 1–97.
33. Mary Beard and John North (eds.), Pagan Priests (London: Duckworth, 1990).
34. John J. Castelot and A. Cody, ‘Religious Institutions of Israel’, in R.E. Brown, J.A. Fitzmyer and R.E. Murphy (eds.), The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2nd edn, 1990), p. 1254.
35. Cody, History, pp. 14–25.
36. M. Haran, ‘Priests and Priesthood’, in EncJud, XIII, p. 1069.
37. Haran notes the remnants of this conception in the Bible, but claims that it lost ‘its actual, concrete meaning as it became fossilized in linguistic usage’ (p. 1069).
38. Auneau and Beaude, ‘Sacerdoce’, pp. 1175–83.
39. Haran, ‘Priests and Priesthood’, pp. 1070–73, 1080.
40. Lawrence H. Schiffman, ‘Priests’ in P.J. Achtemeier (ed.), Harper's Bible Dictionary (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985), p. 822.
41. W.I. Woodhouse, ‘Priest, Priesthood (Greek)’, in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, X, pp. 303, 306.
42. Sabourin, Priesthood, pp. 36–37.
43. Jules Martha, Les sacerdoces athéniens (Bibliothèque des ecoles Françaises D'Athènes et de Rome, 26; Paris: Ernest Thorin, 1882).
44. Beard and North (eds.), Pagan Priests, Chapter 2.
45. Plato, Laws (LCL; 2 vols.; trans. R.G. Bury; London: Heinemann, 1929), VI, p.759.
46. D.M.L. Urie, ‘Officials of the Cult at Ugarit’, PEQ 80 (1948), pp. 42–45.
47. Antonine DeGuglielmo, ‘Sacrifice in the Ugaritic Texts’, CBQ 17 (1955), pp. 89–91.
48. A.F. Rainey, ‘The Kingdom of Ugarit’, BA 28 (1965), pp. 122–24.
49. Jean-Michel de Tarragon, Le culte à Ugarit: d'après les textes de la pratique en cunéiformes alphabétiques (CRB, 19; Paris: J. Gabalda, 1980), pp. 134–38.
50. Auneau and Beaude, ‘Sacerdoce’, pp. 1192–93.
51. Urie, ‘Officials’, pp. 45–47.
52. De Tarragon, Le culte, p. 135.
53. Auneau and Beaude, ‘Sacerdoce’, p. 1184.
54. ANET, pp. 325–26, 329–30, 338–39, 343.
55. C.F. Keil and F. Delilzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament in Ten Volumes. I. The Pelltateuch (10 vols.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980), p. 192.
56. G. Shrenk, ‘íερεϑς’, in TDNT, II, p. 260.
57. BDB, p. 462.
58. Smith, ‘Priests, Priesthood (Hebrew)’, p. 307.
59. Abba, ‘Priests and Levites’, p. 877.
60. Cody, History, pp. 26–28.
61. Auneau and Beaude, ‘Sacerdoce’, pp. 1197–98.
62. Nicholas Lash, Believing Three Ways in One God: A Reading of the Apostles' Creed (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), p. 12.
63. Joseph's hands were ‘filled’ by Potiphar; cf. Exod. 29; Lev. 8.
64. Jacob Milgrom, Studies in Levitical Terminology. I. The Encroacher and the Levite; The Term'Aboda (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970).
65. Castelot and Cody, ‘Religious Institutions’, p. 1254.
66. Temples and Temple Service in Ancient Israel: An Inquiry into Biblical Cult Phenomena and the Historical Setting of the Priestly School [repr.; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1985], pp. 218–19.
67. Jacob Milgrom, Studies in Cultic Theology and Terminology (Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1983).
68. Gordon J. Wenham, The Book of Leviticus (NICOT; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979).