Chapter XLV: Section CII: Traditional Account of the Adoption of the Priestly Law

GENERAL QUESTIONS: 1. Describe the present literary form of the tradition regarding Ezra. 2. Its probable history. 3. Its historical value. 4. The facts underlying it. 5. Origin of the later priestly laws. 6. Their general purpose. 7. Their more important regulations. 8. Their transforming influence upon the Jewish community.

SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL RESEARCH: 1. The difficulties in accepting the Ezra narrative as strictly historical. Torrey, _Ezra Studies_, 208-78; Smith, _O.T. Hist._, 390-8. 2. History of the later priestly codes. _St. O.T._, IV, 43-8. 3. Income and duties of the priests and Levites according to the late priestly codes. _St. O.T._, IV, 187-92, 197-202.