Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 December 2000
- ISBN 9780195132908
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 229x152x19 mm
- Weight 553 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity - 'ritual' and 'moral' - were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament. In examining the evolution of ancient Jewish attitudes towards sin and defilement, Klawans sheds light on a fascinating but previously neglected topic.
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Much has been written about ritual impurity in ancient Judaism, but the question of how the ancient Jews understood the relationship between defilement and sin has largely been ignored. This book offers the first systematic exploration of the important topic to be published in the last seventy years. Jonathan Klawans takes the results of current research on the Hebrew Bible and applies them to early Jewish and Christian groups. The Bible, he shows, considers the moral impurity generated by sin to be entirely distinct from (but no less real than) the ritual impurity generated by bodily function such as menstruation. Klawans then traces the relationship between ritual and moral impurity from early Jewish sects through the New Testament and the theology of Saint Paul and shows how Christian theology arrived at the point where the need for ritual purity was entirely rejected.
Will shape the ways in which scholars view and discuss the role of purity in early Judaism and Christianity ... makes a distinct and complementary contribution to the study of purity in ancient Jewish and Christian communities
