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Hebrew Sacred History (Extract 7)
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The complex book of Leviticus contains the Lord’s instructions to the Hebrews about how to hold up their end of the “Contract with God” so central to their identity. Obviously most readers using this quiz will not remember all of the injunctions in the text, even though the text is much abridged here, so these questions are very general or else refer to admonitions likely to be especially striking to today’s readers.
1. (Extract 7) Much of Leviticus involves direct words of the Lord
but they were actually made up by an idiosyncratic rabbi in Roman times and then attributed to the Lord 
that Moses was supposed to speak to the rest of the group 
that Moses industriously wrote down 
that Moses was directed to dictate to Aaron, professionally a scribe, so that Aaron could write them down 
No Answer
2. (Extract 7)
All meat for human consumption was to be “sacrificed” in the temple or temple tent, but more important sacrifices offered as completely burnt offerings were to be 
cows 
black goats 
unblemished animals 
accompanied by the sacrifice of geese 
immature animals, too young to have experienced sexual intercourse 
No Answer
3. (Extract 7a) When animals were sacrificed,
the blood was not allowed to touch/contaminate the temple floor or the ground below the temple tent 
the blood was to be drained into a special stone receptacle (the historical origin of the later Christian baptismal font) 
they were to be tightly muzzled to silence them as they were killed 
the smell of burning fat was considered pleasing to the Lord 
No Answer
4. (Extract 7a) Nadab and Abihu were sons of Moses’ brother Aaron, the principal priest. They expanded the list of things that could be burnt upon the altar beyond animals to include incense, which the text says produced on the Lord’s altar “strange fire … which he had not commanded them.” As a result they
were cursed to have no offspring 
were cursed to have only daughters and no sons 
were bared from inheriting the priesthood from Aaron, their father 
were exiled into the desert for forty days and forty nights 
were immediately struck dead, incinerated in a fire sent by the Lord 
devoured by a gigantic serpent 
exiled “to the far corners of the earth,” i.e., China, where incense has been used in worship ever since 
No Answer
5. (Extract 7b) According to Leviticus, pious Hebrews were not permitted to eat the meat of
fish 
goats 
cattle 
shellfish 
locusts 
No Answer
6. (Extract 7b) Although archaeology tells us that pork was widely consumed in the ancient near east (apparently including by Hebrews), it is a meat prohibited in Leviticus. To this day, the avoidance of pork is considered a mark of Jewish piety. The Leviticus text explains that, although pigs have split hooves, they are prohibited because, unlike allowable split-hooved animals they
grunt 
wallow in dirty water 
eat dung 
do not chew a cud 
taste good and are conducive to human gluttony 
taste like people and are conducive to human cannibalism 
No Answer
7. (Extract 7b) A person was rendered ritually unclean through contact with a dead body or with any discharge of semen or of menstrual blood or by contact with bedding or clothing that has been so contaminated. To become ritually pure again required (Select two.)
reciting a long prayer four times while facing north 
the passage of time 
animal sacrifice 
confession to a priest and the performance of whatever penance he assigned 
providing a meal to the temple or temple-tent priesthood 
beating a goat —the “scapegoat”— and driving it into the desert 

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