Concern, Custom and Common Sense
This essay interacts with E.P. Sanders’s work on purity, building on some of his insights, while disagreeing on other points. Sanders’s appeal to historical imagination and common sense is discussed and problematized. The essay deals at length with issues such as the expulsion, isolation, and integr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 150-187 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Purity
impurity
skin disease
genital discharge
expulsion
isolation
graded purification
first-day ablution
hand washing
ṭěbûl yôm
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| Summary: | This essay interacts with E.P. Sanders’s work on purity, building on some of his insights, while disagreeing on other points. Sanders’s appeal to historical imagination and common sense is discussed and problematized. The essay deals at length with issues such as the expulsion, isolation, and integration of various impurity bearers, and the emergence of additional water rites to mitigate impurities and prevent unnecessary contamination. The evidence under discussion includes Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea texts, Philo, Josephus, New Testament, and rabbinic literature. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1745-5197 |
| Contains: | In: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455197-01302006 |