Finding America in Leviticus
Reflections on Nation Building in the Twenty-First Century
Published on 20. October 2023
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-1-6667-6788-9 (ISBN)
Description
It would seem that we have taken on an impossible task in this book: trying to demonstrate to modern Americans, be they secular or religious, Jews or Christians, that the sacrificial rites found in Leviticus have any germaneness to their lives. After all, to the extent that any modern reader turns to the pages of Leviticus at all, the notion that they would be inspired by the text and pine for the restoration of animal sacrifices is ludicrous! However, Leviticus is more than laws of sacrifices. As we demonstrate, Leviticus sets forth a template for nation-building via large, regularly-scheduled communal gatherings intended to foster national unity and identity among the Jewish people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-6788-9 (9781666767889)
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Michael J. Broyde | Reuven Travis
Finding America in Leviticus
Reflections on Nation Building in the Twenty-FirstCentury
E-Book
10/2023
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€21.49
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Persons
Michael J. Broyde is a law professor at Emory University in Atlanta who has served in a variety of rabbinic positions throughout the United States. During the 2018 academic year, he was a senior Fulbright scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and in 2019, he was a visiting professor of Jewish law at Stanford Law School.
Reuven Travis taught a wide range of classes over his twenty-year career as an educator, including Jewish law, Bible, and Jewish history. He holds a master's degree in teaching from Mercer University and a master's in Judaic studies from Spertus College. He has published three scholarly works on the book of Job, the book of Numbers, and the book of Genesis, respectively.