Through the swirling smoke of Aaron's incense - and of scholarly theories - the present volume steps toward the meaning enacted on ''the Day of Purgation,'' commonly know as Yom Kippur or ''the Day of Atonement.'' By treating moral evil noth as relational/legal breach and as pollution, the Israelite system of ''purification offerings'' = so-called ''sin offerings'' addresses both the standing a…
Roy Gane critically evaluates Jacob Milgrom's purification-offering theory but ultimately affirms and expands on his seminal insight that theodicy is foundational to the Israelite expiatory system. Gane's conclusions are derived from exegetical study of Hebrew ritual texts and by adapting a systems theory approach to human activity systems.