Purity and Holiness : The Heritage of Leviticus /

Purity and Holiness : The Heritage of Leviticus /

Purity has long been recognized as one of the essential drives which determines humankind's relationship with the holy. Codes of purity and impurity, dealing with such far-ranging topics as 'external stains' and 'inner remorse', represent the physical and 'bodily'...

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Other Authors: Poorthuis, Marcel (Editor), Schwartz, Joshua J. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2000.

Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series; 2.
Jewish and Christian Perspectives Online, ISBN: 9789004427556.

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Rabbinical literature.
Purity, Ritual > Biblical teaching.

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Call Number: BM702

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz
  • Purity and Holiness: an Introductory Survey /
  • Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz
  • The Dynamics of Purity in the Priestly System /
  • Jacob Milgrom
  • Impurity of Land Animals /
  • Mary Douglas
  • Israel's Holiness: The Torah Traditions /
  • Baruch J. Schwartz
  • "They saw that his forehead was leprous" (2 Chr 26:20) /
  • Pancratius C. Beentjes
  • Jewish Purity Laws as Viewed by the Church Fathers and by the Early Followers of Jesus /
  • Peter J. Tomson
  • Purity and Impurity of the Body in Luke-Acts /
  • Bart J. Koet
  • Rudolph Otto Revisited: Numinosity Vis-à-Vis Rabbinic, Patristic and Gnostic Interpretations of Scripture /
  • Marcel Poorthuis
  • Impurity between Intention and Deed: Purity Disputes in First Century Judaism and in the New Testament /
  • Eric Ottenheijm
  • Reflections on Hand-Washing, Hand-Purity and Holy Scripture in Rabbinical Literature /
  • Chaim Milikowsky
  • The Concept of Holiness and the Requirements of Purity in Second Temple and Tannaic Literature /
  • Cana Werman
  • Leviticus 12-15 in Early Christianity /
  • Gerard Rouwhorst
  • Sin and Illness in the Targum of the Prophets /
  • Alberdina Houtman
  • On Birds, Rabbis and Skin Disease /
  • Joshua Schwartz
  • Non-Priestly Purity and its Religious Aspects according to Historical Sources and Archaeological Findings /
  • Eyal Regev
  • 'Contagium' and Images of Self in Late Sixth-Century Gaul /
  • Giselle de Nie
  • Medieval Models of Purity and Sanctity: Ashkenazic Women in the Synagogue /
  • Jeffrey Robert Woolf
  • "A Relic of Superstition": Bodily Impurity and the Church from Gregory the Great to the Twelfth-Century Decretists /
  • Rob Meens
  • Leviticus 12, Mary and Wax: Purification and Churching in Late Medieval Christianity /
  • Charles Caspers
  • Reclaiming Ritual: A Gendered Approach to (Im)Purity /
  • Anne-Marie Korte
  • The Pure Life of Grietje Schouten ( 1915-1947): Rereading Mary Douglas's Natural Symbols /
  • Paul Post
  • Index of Names and Subjects /
  • M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz
  • Index of Ancient Sources /
  • M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz.