Leviticus: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentary Series) - Hardcover

Harrison, Roland Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0851116337 ISBN 13: 9780851116334

Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press, 1980

Synopsis

What does it mean for believers to be a royal priesthood? A holy nation? For Christ to be our great high priest? Our passover lamb? R.K. Harrison analyzes the book of Leviticus in its historical and theological setting, providing the needed context for a New Testament understanding of these themes.

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An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale Old Testament commentaries (Volume 3)

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From the AUTHOR'S PREFACE

Leviticus is a book that is read all too infrequently by the Christian Bible student. Being a rather technical priestly work which deals to a large extent with the rituals and sacrifices of the old covenant, it is commonly imagined to have little relevance for those living in the age of grace.

A closer study of Leviticus, however, provides the reader with remarkable insights into the character and will of God, particularly in the matter of holiness. Amongst the pagan Near Eastern nations, holiness was a state of consecration to the service of a deity, and often involved the practice of immoral rites. For the Hebrews, to be holy as God is holy required a close relationship of obedience and faith, and a manifestation in daily life of the high moral and spiritual qualities characteristic of God's nature as revealed in the Law. This same kind of holiness is demanded also of every believer in Jesus Christ.

Leviticus is thus a work of towering spirituality, which through the various sacrificial rituals points the reader unerringly to the atoning death of Jesus, our great High Priest. An eminent nineteenth-century writer once described Leviticus quite correctly as the seedbed of New Testament theology, for in this book is to be found the basis of Christian faith and doctrine. The Epistle to the Hebrews expounds Leviticus in this connection, and therefore merits careful study in its own right, since in the view of the present writer it is pre-eminent as a commentary on Leviticus.

R. K. Harrison

Edition details

• Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851116337
• ISBN 13: 9780851116334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250