JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

Some ask whether the Bible is contemporarily relevant. The attempt to answer in the affirmative led to myriads of methods of biblical interpretation which have been very helpful in showing that the Bible will be relevant even to coming millennia. Most of these methods have goals in mind as they engage the Bible. The goal of this paper is simply to show that the Bible has relevance because of its sociological base and orientations. God's self revelations were not done in a vacuum but in human daily experiences: needs, expectations, successes, victories, pains and losses. God in His self-revelations helped human beings in various ways to deal with their palavers in relation to their society and environment. The bid to draw out the social base and orientations of the Holiness Code and their usefulness informed this work. The work is basically deductive because of its use of the synchronic method of biblical interpretation. It also has the intention of making its readers reflect on the gains of the analytical build-up, noticeable especially in the treatment of the social characteristics of the Code. Finally, the work does not assume its readers' prior knowledge of Leviticus.

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