Literary Devices in Leviticus
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Genesis takes us from the chaos of nothingness to the Garden of Eden, and from there, all over the map until the twelve tribes of Israel find a nice rental in Egypt. Exodus is a fiery whirlwind o...
Genre
Bringing Order to Chaos
The popular image of Leviticus is that it's a laundry list of laws, but we know better, don't we? There are a couple of stories, multiple styles, stirring declarations of...
What's Up With the Title?
Plenty of Interweb users out there have mused, "What does the Leviticus spell do in Harry Potter?" Well, musers of the World Wide Web, there is no Leviticus spell in Harry Potter.Thinking that ther...
What's Up With the Ending?
The book of Leviticus ends in chapter 27. And chapter 26. And chapter 23. And a bunch of other chapters going all the way back to chapter 1. So what's up with all these false endings? Was Leviticus...
Trivia
If you think Leviticus is hard to understand, you're not alone. Some of the core terms in Leviticus are so old that even scholars aren't sure what they meant. For example, the Hebrew words commonly...
Sex Drugs And Violence Rating
The MPAA (Mishnah Policing Association of America) has given Leviticus a PG-13 rating, which means that parts of it are Pretty Gross in ways that kids may find hilarious once they hit puberty. Levi...
Allusions
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Children being sacrificed to preserve social order? The Hunger Games is the Azazel goat meets Molech, though that probably isn't the pitch that got Collin...