Leviticus 19:1-18
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- VaYikra 19: Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS.
- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- Navigating the Bible: Text/Rabbinic commentary and Divrei Torah.
- Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit:
- Vision II.3, Shepherd of Hermas . (c.145)
- Chapter II, Adversus Judaeos, Tertullian (c. 198)
- II.18, Stromata, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
- II.2, On The Apparel of Women, Tertullian (c. 202)
- IV.35, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 210)
- Chapter X, Exhortation to Chastity, Tertullian (c. 210)
- V.4, V.14, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 212)
- Chapter V, On Modesty, Tertullian (c. 217)
- Epistle VI -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 250)
- Rashi's Commentary, c. 1075. chabad.org.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour -- By consenting to his death, or conspiring with the wicked."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
- "Rather rebuke him than hate him, for an injury done to thyself. We incur guilt by not reproving; it is hating our brother. We should say, I will do him the kindness to tell him of his faults."
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
- "If thy brother hath done wrong, thou shalt neither divulge it to others, nor hate him, and smother that hatred by sullen silence; nor flatter him therein, but shalt freely and in love, tell him of his fault."
- The Duty of Reproving
our Neighbor (Lev 19:17). Sermon by John Wesley.
- "And if we refrain from performing this office of love to any, because they are sinners above other men, they may persist in their iniquity, but their blood will God require at our hands."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "Instead of cherishing latent feelings of malice or meditating purposes of revenge against a person who has committed an insult or injury against them, God's people were taught to remonstrate with the offender and endeavor, by calm and kindly reason, to bring him to a sense of his fault."
- Contemporary References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- Radical Gratitude,Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18, lectionary-based stewardship, Northwest United Methodist Foundation. (.pdf)
- Commentary, Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18, Fred Gaiser, Preaching This
Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2011.
- "Preachers really should talk about Leviticus, since it can cause great confusion and division among Christians."
- Commentary, Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18, Callie Plunket-Brewton, Preaching This
Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2011.
- "When one considers the future of the people once they are settled in Palestine--the future, that is, from a narrative perspective--the laws still do not function as individual prescriptions for right behavior because they do not include punishments for those who fail to follow them. They are best seen as part of a vivid description of the ideal community that is devoted to God."
- "Law and Love," Joanna Harader, Spacious Faith, 2011.
-
Commentary, Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18, James K. Mead, Preaching This
Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2008.
- "Most church members aren't looking for a quick fix to their problems or easy answers to their questions. They struggle to love their neighbor precisely because of the high expectations they have for themselves, namely to treat others impartially, honestly, and lovingly ? the very expectations Leviticus 19:15-18 had for Israelites."
- "Your Neighbor Might Actually Live Next Door," Russell Rathbun, The Hardest Question, 2011.
- " It is time to further consider the question: What does it mean to love my neighbor?
- Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series A, Ralph W. Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
- Leviticus 19:1-18, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia.
- All or Nothing, John C. Holbert, Patheos, 2011.
- "What has a Christian to do with Leviticus, filled as it is with obscure food laws, peculiar sex laws, and lengthy instructions about proper priestly activity?"
-
"Holiness Is
Where You Find It," Torah Commentary by Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman.
BeliefNet.
- "Discovering the sacred in everyday activities."
- Parshah Kedoshim, text, commentary, stories, sermons & articles from Chassidic Masters and others, from Chabad Lubavitch.
-
"Christ-Haunted
Landscape," Bruce Modahl. Commentary from The Christian
Century, October, 1999. At Religion Online.
- "Leviticus is misread when it is used to set a boundary line between people."
- Parshas Acharei Mos / Parshas Kedoshim, Divrei Torah from The Project Genesis Torah Study. Index to numerous Orthodox articles and studies on Leviticus 16:1 - 20:27.
- Parshat Acharei Mot/Kedoshim, articles and commentary by the Jewish Community of Atlanta, at The Torah From Dixie.
- Articles & Background:
-
"The Social Visions of the Hebrew Bible,"
J. David Pleins, Bible and Interpretation.
- "The P narratives and the Holiness Code together establish a comprehensive priestly program that could hold its own against rival claimants who cloaked their alternative efforts in terms of royal or prophetic ideals. P does not appear to be seeking to embrace these other elements so much as to command them."
- "The
Holy and the Sacred," Paul S. Minear, Yale Divinity School. Theology
Today, 1990.
- "The sacred is found wherever religion is found; the holy wherever God is present. Accordingly, it is quite possible to consider many things as sacred but nothing as holy, or equally possible to treat many things as holy but nothing as sacred. Everything depends on the concept of God. Of the two terms, theistic religions view the holy as primary, the sacred as secondary."
- "The Emerging Torah of Same-Sex Marriage," Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center.
- "Theft,
Robbery and Misappropriations: Variations on a Theme," Jewish
Heritage Online Monthly, 2000.
- "While the Halakha does not concern itself with the thief/robber's motive, it does differentiate in a most unusual way between theft and robbery."
-
"The Social Visions of the Hebrew Bible,"
J. David Pleins, Bible and Interpretation.
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices. Annotated list of "starting place" articles at ATLAS for this week's texts (includes direct links).
- Allbee, Richard A.,
"Asymmetrical Continuity of Love and Law between the Old and New Testaments:
Explicating the Implicit Side of a Hermeneutical Bridge, Leviticus
19:11-18," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2006.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Carmichael, Calum M., "Forbidden
Mixtures in Deuteronomy 22:9-11 and Leviticus 19:9," Vetus
Testamentum, 1995.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Carmichael, Calum M., "Laws of
Leviticus 19," Harvard Theological Review, 1994.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Douglas, Mary,
"Justice as the Cornerstone: an Interpretation of Leviticus 18-20,"
Interpretation, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hayes, John H.,
"Atonement in the Book of Leviticus," Interpretation, 1998.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - "Homiletical Helps," Concordia Journal, 2010. (Section on this text begins on page 180)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Kaminsky, Joel S., "Loving One's
(Israelite) Neighbor: Election and Commandment in Leviticus 19,"
Interpretation, 2008.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Kugel, James L, "On Hidden Hatred and
Open Reproach: Early Exegesis of Leviticus 19:17," Harvard
Theological Review, 1987.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Makujina, John, "The Second Greatest
Commandment and Self-Esteem," Master's Seminary Journal, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Minear, Paul S., "The Holy and the
Sacred," The Christian Century, 1990.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Modahl, Bruce, "Christ-Haunted
Landscape," The Christian Century, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Mohnmann, Doug C.,
"Making Sense of Sex: A Study of Leviticus 18," Journal for the Study
of the Old Testament, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Mwombeki, Fidon R.,
"Between Text and Sermon, Leviticus 19:1-37," Interpretation,
1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Powery, Emerson, "Under the Gaze of
the Empire: Who Is My Neighbor?" Interpretation, 2008.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Stern, Jay B., "Jesus' Citation of Deuteronomy 6:5
and Leviticus 19:18 in the Light of Jewish Tradition," The Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 1966.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Wesselschmidt, Quentin F.,
"Homiletical Helps on LW Series C - Old Testament," Concordia Journal,
2007. (Section on this text begins on p. 207)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Williams, Delores S., "After Liberation, What?"
The Christian Century, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Allbee, Richard A.,
"Asymmetrical Continuity of Love and Law between the Old and New Testaments:
Explicating the Implicit Side of a Hermeneutical Bridge, Leviticus
19:11-18," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2006.
- Reviews:
- Review: Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 17 - 22: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. (Doubleday, 2000) Review by Walter E. Brown in SBL's Review of Biblical Literature.
- Sermons:
- "On Being Holy," John Jewell, 2002.
- With Children:
- "Children's Literature: A Resource for Ministry," Feb 20, 2011, Union Presbyterian Seminary. Connections: Leviticus 19:1-2, 8-18 and God's Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
- Drama:
- "Paul Nochio," Glenn A. Hascall, dramatix.
- "Taking Offense," John McNeil, dramatix.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Hymns and Music:
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- Abraham Journeyed to a New Country, Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, BUNESSAN 5.5.5.4 D (?Morning Has Broken?), A hymn for the church?s ministry with immigrants.
- Hymns, midi files, scores at Blue Letter Bible/Cyber
Hymnal:
- Take Time to Be Holy (Leviticus 19:2)
- A Beautiful Life (Leviticus 19:18)
- Is There a Heart Bent O'er with Sorrow? (Leviticus 19:18)
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- Study Links and Resources for the Book of Leviticus
