This article discusses chapters 15 and 16 of the ancient midrash (allegorical commentary) Leviticus Rabba (IV -V AD) and its view of leprosy. The phenomenon of Biblical leprosy is here not investigate...
The noun tsara'at appears about two dozen times in the Hebrew Bible, almost exclusively in Leviticus, where it is used to describe a state of ritual defilement manifested as a scaly condition of the s...