I fell in love with Leviticus around New Year's-ish of 2017. It started with questions about the yeast (I was a first-time reader of Leviticus), and investigating that symbol from Leviticus and other parts of Scripture led to an absolute dive--I mean, I'm still enraptured by it--into this book of the Bible.
It led me to buy this book, and I cannot thank Morales enough for writing it. I am not a student of theology so I am incapable of giving you anything like a peer review or a comparative review on this work. I cannot praise or criticize his hermeneutic, and I wouldn't know if his exegesis (and there is some) is good, bad, or otherwise.
What I CAN tell you is that this book was exactly what I needed to order and make sense of the rich symbols, structure, and New Testament implications of Leviticus. I used this book in tandem with several (6) commentaries from different eras and schools of thought, and I found that all of my questions and all of my confusions got straightened out in the Morales work much more clearly than in any of the others. The book demonstrates the theological structure of the book in the opening chapters and then moves on to a really thorough examination of every figure and theme in Leviticus.
It is a dense, dry, philosophy text-like book. If you're not into that or do not study from such material well, then you might want to click on the look inside button and read through the sample pages before purchase. Otherwise...dive in. This book is incredible. I am ever grateful for the scholarship and thought that went into this book.
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