Studies in Levitical Terminology, I: The Encroacher and the Levite the Term ‘Aboda

by Jacob Milgrom

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2016

Overview

Studies in Levitcal Terminology represents a detailed and technical studies of Hebrew expressions in the book of Leviticus. Designed to be the first of a several studies in language in the Priestly source of the Bible. This monograph focuses, specifically upon the language used to describe the sacred in contrast with the common.

Product Details

• Title: Studies in Levitical Terminology, I: The Encroacher and the Levite the Term ‘Aboda
• Author: Jacob Milgrom
• Volume: I
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 110
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. › Terminology
• ISBNs: 9781498292887, 1498292887
• Resource ID: LLS:STLVTCLTRMTRMBD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-05-26T17:59:52Z

About Jacob Milgrom

Jacob Milgrom is a scholar and professor emeritus in the field of Biblical Studies at the University of California. He is most known for his research on the book of Leviticus and the purity regulations of the Torah.

The Jewish Publication Society of America was founded in Philadelphia in 1888 to provide the children of Jewish immigrants to America with books about their heritage in the language of the New World. As the oldest publisher of Jewish titles in the English language, the mission of JPS is to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works of exceptional quality, in the United States and abroad, to all individuals and institutions interested in past and contemporary Jewish life.

Over the years JPS has issued a body of works for all tastes and needs. Its many titles include biographies, histories, art books, holiday anthologies, books for young readers, religious and philosophical studies, and translations of scholarly and popular classics. It is perhaps known best for its famous JPS Tanakh, the translation of the Hebrew Bible in English from the original Hebrew.