Repetitive Ritual

James Watts (Ritual and Rhetoric, 87-88) calls attention to the repetitions of Leviticus 4-5, especially of the basic roots, cht (sin, sin offering) and ‘shm (guilt, trespass offering):“the refrain ‘sin that he sinned . . . as sin’ appears eight times (4:3, 14, . . . . Continue Reading »