Drawnel, Henryk (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2007)
The Visions of Levi, also called Aramaic Levi Document, contains in the description of the meal offering (vv. 32a-47) an unusual set of numerical entries. Upon a closer scrutiny there appears that these numbers are inspired by the lexical lists that served in the Babylonian education of scribal apprentices already in the third and second millenium B. C. The Levitical composer of the Visions must have been acquainted with the Babylonian tradition and used it successfully for the education of priests in 3rd century B. C. Israel. There remains no doubt therefore that Babylonian didactic tradition has been incorporated into the priestly curriculum of studies in Israel, and Levi, patriarch of the priestly tribe, becomes the first student of these topics.
