Passover Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text===Apotropaic ritual=== The Passover ritual is thought by modern scholars to have its origins in an [[Apotropaic magic|apotropaic]] rite, unrelated to [[the Exodus]], to ensure the protection of a family home, a rite conducted wholly within a clan.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jeffrey G.|last=Audirsch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQaQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|title=The Legislative Themes of Centralization: From Mandate to Demise|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|year=2014|page=108|isbn=978-1620320389|access-date=April 23, 2016|archive-date=April 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403034602/https://books.google.com/books?id=yQaQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Hyssop]] was employed to daub the blood of a slaughtered sheep on the lintels and door posts to ensure that demonic forces could not enter the home.<ref>{{cite book|first=Bernard M.|last=Levinson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-GJFShHwzsC&pg=PA57|title=Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1997|pages=57–58|isbn=978-0195354577|access-date=April 23, 2016|archive-date=April 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403035045/https://books.google.com/books?id=U-GJFShHwzsC&pg=PA57|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page