{"product_id":"9781909697881","title":"Sin, Impurity, Sacrifice, Atonement: The Priestly Conceptions","description":"The goal of this closely reasoned study is to explain why, in Priestly texts of the Hebrew Bible, the verb _kipper_, traditionally translated 'atone', means the way of dealing both with sin and with impurity-which might seem very different things.\u003cp\u003eSklar's first key conclusion is that when the context is sin, certain sins also pollute; so 'atonement' may include some element of _purification_. His second conclusion is that, when the context is impurity, and _kipper_ means not 'atone' but 'effect purgation', impurity also _endangers_; so _kipper_ can include some element of _ransoming_.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, sin and impurity, while distinct categories in themselves, have this in common: each of them requires both ransoming and purification. It is for this reason that _kipper_ can be used in both settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis benchmark study concludes with a careful examination of the famous sentence of Leviticus 17.11 that 'blood makes atonement' (_kipper_) and explains how, in the Priestly ideology, blood sacrifice was able to accomplish both ransom and purification.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sheffield Phoenix Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043859349744,"sku":"9781909697881","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909697881_p0.jpg?v=1763624660","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909697881","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}