Loci · Wroot Press

A small Wroot Press project. Loci — Latin for the places, or topics, of a book — are the threads each scriptural book holds. We take books readers skip for being strange, dense, or distant, and we read them through themes drawn from the book itself, not imported from elsewhere. Themes appear as colors inline with the scripture. Overlap shows where the text holds more than one thing at once.

How it works · Leviticus 5:1–6 holds three themes at once

5:1–6

"'If anyone sins, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn't report it, then he shall bear his iniquity. Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty. Or if he touches the uncleanness of man, whatever his uncleanness is with which he is unclean, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty. Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.

Sacrifice & Offerings

Burnt, grain, peace, sin, and guilt offerings — the system of bringing.

Atonement & Forgiveness

Making things right — blood that covers, forgiveness sought and received.

Social Justice

Restitution, the neighbor, the poor, the resident alien.

The first theme tints the background; the others stack as borders — underline, overline, left edge. The dots in the corner match.