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Rufinus admitted that he made more changes to the Homilies on Leviticus than Origen's homilies on the other books of the Pentateuch.He wrote in the translator's preface that the "duty of supplying what was wanted I took up because I thought that the practice of agitating questions and then leaving them unsolved, which he frequently adopts in his homiletic mode of speaking, might prove ...
The Two Priests Are Destroyed (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot). Shemini, Sh'mini, or Shmini (שְּׁמִינִי —Hebrew for "eighth", the third word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 26th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Leviticus.
LEVITICUS 23. God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites to proclaim the sacred feasts of the Sabbath, Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot.
The order to keep the sabbath, passover, and feast of unleavened bread (Leviticus 23:1–10a) The order to keep Yom Kippur, and Sukkot (Leviticus 23:23–44) The order for continual bread and oil (Leviticus 24:1–9) Case law concerning a blasphemer (Leviticus 24:10–15a and 24:23) The order for a trumpet sounding on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 25:9b)
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The Mishnah taught that three experts were required for the assessment of fourth-year fruit (as in Leviticus 19:23–25) and the second tithe (as in Deuteronomy 14:22–26) of unknown value, of consecrated objects for redemption purposes, and valuations of movable property the value of which had been vowed to the Sanctuary. According to Judah ...
The Anchor Bible Commentary Series, created under the guidance of William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971), comprises a translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Intertestamental Books (the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Deuterocanon/the Protestant Apocrypha; not the books called by Catholics and Orthodox "Apocrypha", which are widely called by Protestants ...
For example, Sukkot is described in detail in Leviticus 23:33–43. [10] Shemini Atzeret is mentioned in only verses 36 and 39. The Hebrew word shemini means eighth. This refers to the date of Shemini Atzeret relative to Sukkot; it falls on the latter’s eighth day. [note 1] It is often assumed that Shemini Atzeret is simply the eighth day of ...