At the Boundary of Textual and Literary Criticisms: The case of כי in lev 20:9

Chavel, Simeon

doi:10.1163/2589255x-02001007

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2000

DOI: 10.1163/2589255x-02001007

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At the Boundary of Textual and Literary Criticisms: The case of כי in lev 20:9

Simeon Chavel¹

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Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source

Hosle

2022

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This essay concerns the vexed question of imitatio Dei in the Holiness Code (Lev 17–26) and, to a minor degree, other Holiness (H) traditions in the Pentateuch. I argue that H possesses a robust theology of imitatio Dei, but that the specific form that this imitation takes requires further clarification. Conceptually, I distinguish between the imitandum (i.e., that which is to be imitated) and the imitatio (i.e., the act of imitating). I argue that the imitandum is holiness understood as a quality proper to the deity that is irreducible to a code of conduct, but that this does not vitiate the applicability of the concept of imitatio Dei. On the level of the imitatio, I emphasize the irreducibly social nature of the imitatio, as well as its theocentric logic of justification. Within a typology of imitational structures, H represents an interesting case where both the imitandum and imitatio are heteronomously determined by the external demand of the deity and where the impulse of private, subjective moral growth plays a negligible role.

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Understanding Imitatio Dei in the Holiness Source

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Vetus Testam.

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