The purity and sanctuary of the body in Second Temple Judaism
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Sanctuary -- Holiness -- Purity and Impurity -- Purity and Holiness in Second Temple Jewish Studies -- Pervasive Purity -- Categorizing Impurity -- Body as Cultic Sanctum -- Why the emphasis on purity? -- Jesus a...
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Sanctuary -- Holiness -- Purity and Impurity -- Purity and Holiness in Second Temple Jewish Studies -- Pervasive Purity -- Categorizing Impurity -- Body as Cultic Sanctum -- Why the emphasis on purity? -- Jesus and Purity -- Paul, Purity, and Holiness -- Purity of the Body in Social-Anthropology and Ritual Studies -- Purity Symbolism -- Inclusion vs. Exclusion -- Reformulating Ritual -- The Body as A Virtual Sanctuary -- Thirdspace -- The Metaphor of Community as Temple in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament -- Metaphor Theory -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- Paul -- Biblical Antecedents of the Notion of People as Temple -- Torah Narratives -- Deuteronomic Traditions -- Prophetic Traditions -- Priestly Regulations -- Method and Plan of the Book -- Chapter One: A Templeless Sanctuary -- 1.1 Loss of the Temple and Exile: Ritual and Identity in Crisis -- 1.1.1 Oppression and Purity -- 1.1.2 Judahtown -- 1.1.3 Later Judaism -- 1.1.4 Thirdspace -- 1.2 Persian Influence -- 1.2.1 Rituals out of Place -- 1.2.2 Influence from Zoroastrianism? -- 1.3 Ezekiel: A Ritual Text from the Exile -- 1.3.1 The First Temple -- 1.3.2 The Future Temple -- 1.3.3 A Sanctuary without a Temple -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Ezra-Nehemiah: Holy Seed 6-1-18 -- 2.1 A New Theological Paradigm -- 2.1.1 Date and Sources of Ezra-Nehemiah -- 2.1.2 (En)countering Religious Difference -- 2.1.3 Opposing Intermarriage on Holy Grounds -- 2.2 Cultic Terminology in Ezra-Nehemiah -- 2.2.1 Holiness and Sacrilege -- 2.2.2 Purity and Impurity -- 2.3 The Nature of Gentile Impurity -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: From Holy Seed to Human Sanctuary -- 3.1 Second Temple Literature -- 3.1.1 Haggai and Zechariah -- 3.1.2 Trito-Isaiah -- 3.1.3 Malachi -- 3.1.4 Chronicles -- 3.1.5 Aramaic Levi Document -- 3.1.6 Tobit. |
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| ISBN: | 3647571288 |