Leviticus

"Kamionkowski offers a highly readable exploration of the book's complex and multi-faceted vision of what it means to live as YHVH's holy people. Scholarly without being prohibitively technical, wide-ranging, and punctuated with fascinating sidebar vignettes that supplement and illustrate the main lines of comment from a variety of perspectives, this insightful and creative treatment well deserves its place in a series that promotes the values of wisdom and inclusivity in biblical exegesis. Leviticus has frequently labored under the shadow of oppressively hierarchical and negatively ritualistic readings. Kamionkowski shows how often it is possible to see this admittedly dense and sometimes obscure book in a positive and egalitarian light. Her work is a gift to all those who want to see how Leviticus continues to resonate powerfully for the good in a context very different from that of its original creation."Deborah Rooke, Regent's Park College, University of Oxford
"This commentary provides the balance of a feminist approach to such a markedly patriarchal text. Just as Kamionkowski values the scholarship of her contributors and of all those whose work she cites, readers can gain from this commentary by seeing it in the wider context of other studies of this challenging text."
Australian Biblical Review
"Even readers with little or no Hebrew will find this a highly accessible and enlightening exploration of an underappreciated OT book."
The Bible Today
"This work is helpful to the preacher and teacher, indeed to the believer who seeks to understand what a text that has had so much negative influence might mean positively."
Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (Water)
"The end result is a complex, multivocal commentary on Leviticus. This commentary provides a rich, ideological approach to the text."
Melinda Thompson, Abilene Christian University Graduate School of Texas