Leviticus (Kerux Commentaries)

Kerux Commentaries enable pastors and teachers to understand and effectively present the main message in a biblical text.

Leviticus focuses on relationships--a relationship with God through worship and relationships with other people through holiness. Throughout the book, the priests and the Levites receive special responsibilities to help Israel in both these spheres. Authors Michael A. Harbin and Mark C. Biehl show how Leviticus lays out three related practices that would hold these relationships together for the nation of Israel: corporate worship; personal and collective holiness; and righteous living as a covenant community. Harbin and Biehl suggest bridges to our own culture by discussing what the Israelites at Sinai would have understood about the reasons behind what Leviticus prescribes. Just as the Israelites’ complex relationships with family and neighbors formed a foundation for both cultural and personal wellbeing, the church today is called to pursue wholistic shalom in its own time and place.