Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567028327
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 01/08/2008
This book is acollection of essays on purificaton and atonement in the Hebrew Bible that provides new insights into the discussion of these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and anthropological approaches to the topics. The collection also examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what extent it is possible to speak of the function or meaning of ritual, even within the highly systematic priestly texts.
Baruch J. Schwatrz and David P. Wright; Introduction; Roy E. Gane, Andrews University; The Function of the Nazirite's Concluding Purification Offering; Jonathan Klawans, Boston University; Methodology and Ideology in the Study of Priestly Ritual; Jay Sklar, Covenant Theological Seminary; Sin and Impurity: Atoned and Purified? Yes!; Frank Gorman, Bethany College; Priests and Pagans: Ritual Structures, Blood, and Purification; Naphtali S. Meshel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Pure, Impure, Permitted, Prohibited: A Study of Classification Systems in P; Nicole J. Ruane, Union Theological Seminary; Sacred Impurity: The Red Cow (Numbers 19) as Anti-Sacrifice; William K. Gilders, Emory University; Blood as Purificant in Priestly Torah: What Do We Know and How Do We Know and How Do We Know It?; David Tabb Stewart, Southwestern University; Does the Priestly Purity Code (Leviticus 11-15) Domesticate Women?; Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology; Dirt, Disgust, and Demons: Body and Morality in Biblical Purity Laws.
Mention New Testament Abstracts, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2009