Holiness code
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The Holiness code is used in biblical criticism to refer to Leviticus chapters 17–26, and sometimes passages in other books of the Pentateuch, especially Numbers and Exodus. It is so called due to its
Part of the Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus scroll, which contains the oldest known copy of the Holiness Code.
Documentary hypothesis
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In bibliology, the documentary hypothesis is one of the models used by biblical scholars to explain the origins and composition of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible: Genesis, Exodus,
Holiness code
…remainder of Leviticus, the many laws of the Holiness Code are expressed very closely packed together, and very briefly. According to most versions of the documentary hypothesis, the Holiness Code represents an earlier text that was edited and incorporated into the Priestly source and the Torah as a whole, although some scholars…
11th-century CE manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, showing Exod. 12:25-31, with each verse of the original Hebrew Torah text followed by its Targum (Aramaic) translation
Julius Wellhausen