Jonathan Grossman is a professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University and a senior faculty member at Herzog College in Alon Shvut. The Sacrificial Service: Gestures of Flesh and Spirit, translated into English by Sara Daniel, is his sustained argument that the sacrificial system of Leviticus is not a concession to Israel's pagan past, as Rambam famously held, nor an archaeological artifact of ancient Near Eastern religion, as most modern scholarship treats it. It is a language of gesture, nonverbal