Passover and the Festival of Matzot: Synthesizing Two Holidays

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  1. For this analysis, see Bernard M. Levinson, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 53-97.

  2. The word עליו in v.3 is a strong indicator of the splice. It creates real confusion and is thus often not translated; after all, how is it possible to eat matzah for seven days על (“upon”) the paschal lamb that must be consumed that very night!

  3. Text from http://web.archive.org/web/20070225103540/http://www.ancientneareast.net/elephantine_papyri.html, accessed April 4, 2014. Brackets indicate text that was reconstructed by the editors due to damage in the papyrus.

Prof. Michael L. Satlow is Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. from JTS, is the author of Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice and How the Bible Became Holy and the editor of… Read More
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