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Part I — The Pentateuch (1895)
The Book of Leviticus
A short, sharp reading of the priestly code: the laws of uncleanness that rate a daughter's birth beneath a son's, the shekel valuations that price women below men at every age, and what the committee makes of a ritual system built on female impurity.
The purity and uncleanness lawsThe unequal valuation of male and femaleThe priestly code and womenLevitical marriage rules