How did the Rabbis understand the role of the High Priest in the Temple? How do we trace the Levites through generations? 

Dr. Yonatan Miller is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of The Center for Religious Understanding at the University of Toledo. He has published articles in Jewish Studies Quarterly and in the Journal of Ancient Judaism and is currently at work on a monograph entitled Sacred Slaughter: Violence and the Israelite-Jewish Priesthood based on his 2015 dissertation. 

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