The Beginnings and Ends of Sacrifice: A Shared Reimagining of the Cultic Past in the Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Levi Document.
The Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Levi Document are two works of Jewish literature from the Hellenistic period that recount events from the lives of Israel's ancestral heroes. These two compositions are rarely analyzed in relation to each other, despite their many striking similarities. In this...
| Published in: | Catholic Biblical Quarterly Vol. 85; no. 3; pp. 440 - 465 |
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