From: "Paul-Jennifer Schaefer"<paul-jennifer_schaefer AT sil.org>
To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re[2]: Atonement vs Redemption
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 22:24:50 -0400
>>An excellent discussion of kipper (which is usually translated atonement)
>>can
>>be found in Jacob Milgrom's Anchor Bible Commentary on Leviticus Vol 1.
>>He is the authority on the subject, to my way of thinking anyway.
>In order to understand the Torah, especially concepts such as these,
>you have to go to JEWISH sources. There is no other authority.
I have been enjoying this interesting discussion. But I'm a little
confused. Are you saying Jacob Milgrom isn't a Jewish source? The
Anchor series is an interfaith work (including Moshe Greenberg of
Hebrew University for the Ezekiel volume), and in any case Milgrom
also writes for the JPS Torah commentary (the Numbers volume). That
seems to place his commentary on Torah as a reasonably Jewish source.
Paul Schaefer
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aller>An
excellent discussion of kipper (which is usually translated atonement)
can
be found in Jacob Milgrom's Anchor Bible Commentary on Leviticus Vol
1.
He is the authority on the subject, to my way of thinking anyway.
</smaller></color></fontfamily>In order to understand the Torah,
especially concepts such as these, you have to go to JEWISH sources.
There is no other authority.
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<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><color><param>0000,0000,FFFF</param><smaller>The
word translated redeem is pdh. YHWH redeemed the Jews from
Egyptian bondage. Redeem doesn't have anything to do with sin.
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aller>The
sin of the individual (such as when she menstruates) affects
the altar. The altar is then kippered by the blood of the sacriffice.
It is only by constantly purging the altar with sacrificial blood is
YHWH willing to remain in the temple. When the sins become