The disposal of the hattat flesh

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Kim, Gyung-Yul
Venter, P.M. (Pieter Michiel), 1947-

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AOSIS Open Journals

Abstract

This article investigates the criteria for the disposal of the sin offering in the book of Leviticus, the function of the different ways of disposal and the meaning of the disposal with regard to Leviticus 10:17. It is indicated that this sacrifice is intended to eliminate the offerer’s sin and the sanctuary’s impurity. The eaten hattat offering retains minor contamination by human sin or impurity, whilst the burnt hattat offering is contaminated by more severe and major sins and impurities, in appropriation with either the offerer’s socio-religious status or the gravity of the sin.

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This article was republished with the corrected Hebrew phrase לְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיהֶם in the second column of the third paragraph on page 3 if 10.
This article is based on a PhD thesis by Gyung-Yul Kim ‘The hattat ritual and the Day of Atonement in the book of Leviticus’ handed in at the University of Pretoria, 2013, in the Department of Old Testament Studies under the supervision of Prof. Pieter Venter. (http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33005)

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Disposal, Sacrifice, Sin offering, Book of Leviticus

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Kim, G.Y. & Venter, P.M., 2013, 'The disposal of the hattat flesh', HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #2030, 10 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v69i1.2030.