Leviticus Figures

Yeah, this guy again. God has already had a good bit of screen time in Genesis and Exodus. And in Leviticus, he generally stays on the path set out for him in the first two books of the Hebrew Bi...

Other than the sometimes-fussy YHVH, there's only one other deity in town in Leviticus: Molek. And boy is this guy a royal pain in God's holy backside. No matter how many times God tells the Israel...

Moses, Moses, Moses. You used to be so much more interesting. After a book chock full of exciting adventures, the Moses of Leviticus is little more than God's sockpuppet. God tells him what to sa...

Moses may not be the big kahuna in Leviticus, but a lot of what he says bolsters the authority of the Tabernacle priests. And the most important of these is the high priest, who just happens to be...

The son of Shelomith is the star of the second (and last) narrative in Leviticus, found in chapter 24. He's the son of an Egyptian man and an Israelite woman. He blasphemes God and the Israelites s...