Levites and Priests In Biblical History and Tradition

Mark Leuchter is Director of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion, at Temple University. He is the co-editor of Soundings in Kings: Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship (Fortress).
Jeremy M. Hutton is Assistant Professor of Classical Hebrew Language and Biblical Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Transjordanian Palimpsest: The Overwritten Texts of Personal Exile and Transformation in the Deuteronomistic History (de Gruyter).

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Mark Leuchter and Jeremy M. Hutton

Part I
Priests and Levites in Social Context
Covenant Priesthood: Cross-cultural Legal and Religious Aspects of Biblical and Hittite Priesthood
Ada Taggar-Cohen
Who Is Sacrifi cing at Shiloh? Th e Priesthoods of Ancient Israel’s Regional Sanctuaries
Susan Ackerman
The Levitical Diaspora (II): Modern Perspectives on the Levitical Cities Lists (A Review of Opinions)
Jeremy M. Hutton
The Social Status of Priestly and Levite Women
Sarah Shectman

Part II
Priests and Levites in Scriptural Context
The Violent Origins of the Levites: Text and Tradition
Joel S. Baden
Between Shadow and Substance: The Historical Relationship of Tabernacle and Temple in Light of Architecture and Iconography
Cory D. Crawford
What Do the “Levites in Your Gates” Have to Do with the “Levitical Priests”? An Attempt at European-North American Dialogue on the Levites in the Deuteronomic Law Corpus
Peter Altmann
Those Stubborn Levites: Overcoming Levitical Disenfranchisement
Stephen L. Cook

Part III
Priests and Levites in Exegetical Context
Middle-Tier Levites and the Plenary Reception of Revelation
Mark A. Christian
The Cultic Status of the Levites in the Temple Scroll: Between History and Hermeneutics
Jeffrey Stackert
From Levite to Maśkîl in the Persian and Hellenistic Eras
Mark Leuchter
Contributors
Index of Passages
Index of Authors