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Hardcover A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism Book
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ISBN: 0812239504

ISBN13: 9780812239508

A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism

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According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, Martha Himmelfarb observes, is paradoxical, for priests are by definition a minority, yet the meaning in context is clear: the entire people is holy. The words also point to some significant tensions in the biblical understanding of the...

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