“Space and Memory in the Book of Leviticus,” Pages 83-96 in Scripture as Social Discourse: Social-Scientific Perspectives on Early Jewish and Christian Writings, ed. T. Klutz, C. Strine and J. M. Keady. London: T&T Clark, 2018
In this paper I employ social scientific theories that conceptualize space as existing in physical, mental and symbolic fields simultaneously, and combine them with memory studies, in order to offer a new reading of how the authors of Leviticus construed Israel’s cultic origins and what aims they were pursuing with this composition.