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Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597525848
Author : Christian Frevel,Christophe Nihan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004232105
Focusing on concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the ancient Mediterranean, this volume contributes new aspects to the current discussion about the forming of religious traditions, from a comparative perspective that acknowldges individual developments, mutual exchanges, as well as transcultural processes.
Author : Jonathan Klawans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780195177657
Jonathan Klawans shows how the link between moral impurity and physical defilement, as understood by the ancient Hebrews, can be followed through to St Paul and the Christian era when the need for ritual purity was finally rejected.
Author : Paolo Sacchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1405643832
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004667907
Author : Susan Haber
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589833555
These essays address the connection between purity in early Judaism and the synagogue, Jesus' observance of purity laws, and women's relationships with purity in the first century.
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 9004037454
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 9004037454
Author : Professor Mary Douglas,Mary Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136489273
Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.
Author : Jonathan Klawans
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195395846
Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others see these cultic rituals as merely the fossilized vestiges of primitive superstition. Some believe that ancient Jewish sacrifice was doomed from the start, destined to be replaced by the Christian eucharist. Others think that the temple was fated to be superseded by the synagogue. In Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that these supersessionist ideologies have prevented scholars from recognizing the Jerusalem temple as a powerful source of meaning and symbolism to the ancient Jews who worshiped there. Klawans exposes and counters such ideologies by reviewing the theoretical literature on sacrifice and taking a fresh look at a broad range of evidence concerning ancient Jewish attitudes toward the temple and its sacrificial cult. The first step toward reaching a more balanced view is to integrate the study of sacrifice with the study of purity-a ritual structure that has commonly been understood as symbolic by scholars and laypeople alike. The second step is to rehabilitate sacrificial metaphors, with the understanding that these metaphors are windows into the ways sacrifice was understood by ancient Jews. By taking these steps-and by removing contemporary religious and cultural biases-Klawans allows us to better understand what sacrifice meant to the early communities who practiced it. Armed with this new understanding, Klawans reevaluates the ideas about the temple articulated in a wide array of ancient sources, including Josephus, Philo, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic literature. Klawans mines these sources with an eye toward illuminating the symbolic meanings of sacrifice for ancient Jews. Along the way, he reconsiders the ostensible rejection of the cult by the biblical prophets, the Qumran sect, and Jesus. While these figures may have seen the temple in their time as tainted or even defiled, Klawans argues, they too-like practically all ancient Jews-believed in the cult, accepted its symbolic significance, and hoped for its ultimate efficacy.
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Neusner Titles in Brown Judaic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012852706
Author : Christine E. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198034469
In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Hayes argues that different views of the possibility of conversion, based on varying ideas about Gentile impurity, were the key factor in the formation of Jewish sects in the second temple period, and in the separation of the early Christian Church from what later became rabbinic Judaism.
Author : Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua J. Schwartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004421394
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' side of religious experience and provide the key to the understanding of human orientation to nature, and the structure of society, including even relationships between the sexes. Starting with the Hebrew Bible, a number of articles study some rather neglected passages from both exegetical and cultural-anthropological standpoints. Next, it is shown that the concept of purity is far more central to the New Testament than previously thought. Luke is portrayed as a Jewish-oriented writer. The discussion of purity in Mark is compared with Rabbinical and Qumranic material. Patristic discussions of purity reflect both allegorical and literal interpretations, while rabbinical rulings display a fine sense for detail and realia. Biblical references to illness are interpreted both in Christian and Jewish traditions as a metaphor for immoral behavior. The present collection of studies proceeds far beyond other collections on purity, studying both the medieval and modern periods. Purity rules, in both Christian and Jewish society, do not disappear in the Middle Ages, but become increasingly stronger. Sometimes there appear unexpected and surprising similarities between both societies. Modern society sees a decline in the importance of purity, reflecting a growing ambiguous attitude to the relationship between the body and the holy. A feminist perspective is also provided, examining the intertwined relationship between religion, gender and power. Exegesis, archaeology, liturgy, anthropology and even architecture are all used to study the complex phenomena of purity in their religious and social dimensions from both Christian and Jewish perspectives.
Author : Moshe Blidstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198791959
This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.
Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521495400
The book describes in detail the ritual purity system of the Hebrew Bible, and its development into the system of the rabbis. Certain human conditions require purification before contact is made with holy foods or areas. Recent scholarly theories (Milgrom, Neusner, Douglas) are discussed, and new theories are proposed for the origin of the Red Cow and Scapegoat rites. It is argued that the impurities concerned all derive from the human cycle of generation, birth and death, from which the Sanctuary is to be guarded; not because it needs protection from demonic powers (as in other ancient purity systems), but because of the reverence due to the divine presence. While the priestly code of holiness displays traces of earlier conceptions, its ritual has lost urgent salvific force, and has become a protocol for the Temple and a dedicatory code for a priestly people; the sources distinguish it from universal morality.
