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J.W. Rogerson

J.W. Rogerson, ed.
Leviticus in Practice

 

Practice Interpretation takes the everyday social conditions of people as they are described in the Bible and looks at emerging issues that confront interpreters in daily life. The latest volume in the Practice Interpretation series deals with a much-neglected but fascinating part of the Bible, the book of Leviticus.


The book opens with an introduction by J.W. Rogerson.

 

Philip Davies attempts to uncover the main theme of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, concluding that the portrait of the ideal Israel in each gives the perspective respectively of a priest, a military commander and a lawyer. In his second essay he explores the enigmatic figure of Azazel in the atonement ritual of Leviticus 16. What parallels are there with the New Testament account of the Passion of Jesus?

 

John Rogerson studies the term niddah in relation to the
menstruating woman in Leviticus 15, concluding that we must revise our ideas and practice about impurity in the Old Testament. His second study, of the sources and compilation of Leviticus 19, suggests that we must revise our ideas and practice about holiness.

 

John Vincent deals with the relationship between the Jubilee legislation in Leviticus and the ministry of Jesus, drawing conclusions for the nature of Christian discipleship today.

 

Noel Irwin looks at Leviticus 19 in relation to John Wesley's view of practical holiness and his interest in the Letter of James.

 

John Davies views Leviticus 25 from the point of view of his

experience of working in apartheid South Africa.

 

J.W. Rogerson is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield and a Canon Emeritus of Sheffield Cathedral. His many publications cover the historical, geographical and social background to
the Old Testament, the history of biblical interpretation, and the use of the Bible in moral, social, political and environmental issues.

Practice Interpretation

ISBN 9781905679249 (PI, 3) 98pp. Pbk.  UK £18.95/ Europe £19.95/ ROW £22.95     2014

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J.W. Rogerson and John Vincent, eds.
The Servant of God in Practice

 

 

Practice Interpretation takes the everyday social conditions of people as they are described in the Bible and looks at emerging issues that confront today’s interpreters in daily life. The latest volume in the Practice Interpretation series deals with the multifaceted and significant biblical theme of the Servant of God.

Contributions

Philip Davies: Servant-Talk in Isaiah

Walter Houston: Politicizing the Servant of the Lord

Andrew Parker: The Servant in Deutero-Isaiah

J.W. Rogerson: The Righteous Servant in Psalm 22

Morna Hooker: Did Jesus use Isaiah 53?

John Vincent: Jesus and Disciples as Servants

Ian Wallis: Servant Power

David Blatherwick: The Ethiopian Eunuch

Leslie J. Francis: The Servant and Psychological Types

Ian K. Duffield: Servant Church? Servant Ministry?

Andrew Pratt: Hymns and Servanthood

David Price: Servant Ministries in the City

 

J.W. Rogerson is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield and a Canon Emeritus of Sheffield Cathedral. His many publications cover the historical, geographical and social background to the Old Testament, the history of biblical interpretation, and the use of the Bible in moral, social, political and environmental issues.

Rev. Dr. John Vincent, D.Theol. 1960, Basel, is Honorary Lecturer in Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the editor of Mark: Gospel of Action and joint author of The Drama of Mark and The City in Biblical Perspective. He is a Methodist minister, and married with three grown-up children.

Practice Interpretation

ISBN 9781905679379 (PI, 6) 140pp. Pbk.  UK £19.95/ Europe £20.95/ ROW £22.95     2017

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