Leviticus (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible | BTC)
Overview
In this commentary, Radner offers an interesting perspective on Leviticus. Though on the surface Leviticus is a book of laws concerning sacrifices, worship, the priesthood, and many other subjects, at the heart of the book is the underlying message that God is holy and requires his children to be holy. In our quest for holiness, we know that we will constantly fall short of God’s requirements. There is hope, as God reorients his people to himself in a fallen world. Radner parallels the animal sacrifice for sin, with the death of Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice to reconcile humans to God. Though it is an Old Testament book, Leviticus, in Radner’s point of view, has many Christological connections that can be found.
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“Thus it is not only right but useful for us that God should be partly concealed and partly revealed, since it is equally dangerous for man to know God without knowing his own wretchedness as to know his wretchedness without knowing God’ (Pascal 1966: frag. 446; see also 220, 268).” (Page 21)
“‘And the Lord called Moses, and spoke to him from the tent of meeting’ tells us, rather, that the words spoken reveal the Lord himself, not only the history of religious formation. The church rightly sees the words spoken as therefore necessarily referring to God, whose purposes call the whole world to its end in him. Such is the reach of his will.” (Page 37)
“Although the forms for reading Leviticus are not given in advance, we therefore know that any proper Christian reading of the text will somehow detail the redemptive work of the humiliated Christ upon the broken hearts of human beings and of the whole created order. ‘Figural’ reading is the name we give to the outworking of this ‘somehow.’” (Page 22)
“But it is important to see how this climax is achieved: by beginning with a new mention of Aaron’s sons and their deaths, the theological substance of the chapter is reached through the history of a family’s calling, tragedy, and reoriented hope. If it is a climax, it is only one whose dynamic is designed to be continuous.” (Page 160)
“Leviticus—even before it is examined—must be assumed to be a means by which the truth of God is exposed to us for our eternal destiny. The whole of reality comprises two foundational truths according to Pascal: the redemptive love of God, and the corruption of human life and nature.” (Page 21)
Radner’s commentary is full of stimulating insights from which biblical scholars will benefit. . . . [It] makes a valuable contribution to the Christian study of Leviticus.
—Leigh Trevaskis, Review of Biblical Literature
Preachers will . . . find considerable assistance and rich theological material in Leviticus. . . . [Radner] is well known as a theologian. With this volume, he makes a serious contribution to biblical scholarship as well.
—Preaching
- Title: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible: Leviticus
- Author: Ephraim Radner
- Editor: R. R. Reno
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2008
- Pages: 320