Abstract
The confession of transgressions and on the Day of Atonement was documented by the author of Leviticus 16 at a very ancient point in Israel's history. This chapter's goal is to engage this notion of a cultic confession motif originating with the Priestly writers and subsequently influencing penitential prayers of the Second Temple Period. It gives a brief study of the cultic confession motif in Num 5: 6-8. After explaining how the expression functions as prayer formula, it will consider the penitential terms iniquities, transgressions and sins as part of a cultic confession motif embedded in the book of Leviticus and in the Priestly corpus as a whole. Then, author studies the manner and degree to which the cultic confession motif has penetrated the postexilic penitential prayers in Ezra 9 and Nehemiah 9. Keywords:Atonement; cultic confession; Ezra 9; iniquities; Israel; Leviticus 16:21; Nehemiah 9; Penitential Prayers; Second Temple Period; transgressions
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