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Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597525847
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Purity in Ancient Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Frevel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004232109
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism written by Christian Frevel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0195177657
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism written by Jonathan Klawans and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book “The” Idea of Purity in Ancient Judaism written by Paolo Sacchi and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004037458
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The idea of purity in ancient Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004667903
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Purity in Ancient Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Haber
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589833554
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book "They Shall Purify Themselves" written by Susan Haber and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2008 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Professor Mary Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136489274
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Purity and Danger written by Professor Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Neusner Titles in Brown Judaic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ancient Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by Neusner Titles in Brown Judaic. This book was released on 1984 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moshe Blidstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019879195X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature written by Moshe Blidstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Yair Furstenberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253067731
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism written by Yair Furstenberg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism explores how this concern shaped the worldview of Jews during the Second Temple period as well as their daily practices and social relations. It examines how different groups offered competing visions and methods for living a life of purity, which embodied a promise for personal and cosmic salvation and at the same time determined the degree of sectarian separation. Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism offers a comprehensive description of the world of purity among the Jews of the Second Temple period in general and within the tradition of the Pharisees in particular. Yair Furstenberg explores the language of purity that provided Jews in antiquity a powerful tool for organizing legal, social, and ideological boundaries, and its study is therefore pertinent for understanding the powers that shaped the varieties of Second Temple Judaism and their later offshoots: Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism offers new methods for carefully integrating the New Testament, Qumran literature, and early rabbinic sources into a comprehensive history of purity laws from the world of the Second Temple and the Pharisees to the later rabbinic movement, allowing the reader to trace the emergence of new religious sensibilities within changing social and cultic circumstances.
Author : Mira Balberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520958217
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature written by Mira Balberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis’ new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one’s self and one’s body and, more broadly, the relations between one’s self and one’s human and nonhuman environments. With their heightened emphasis on subjectivity, consciousness, and self-reflection, the rabbis reinvented biblically inherited language and practices in a way that resonated with central cultural concerns and intellectual commitments of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature adds a new dimension to the study of practices of self-making in antiquity by suggesting that not only philosophical exercises but also legal paradigms functioned as sites through which the self was shaped and improved.
Author : Christine E. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198034466
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities written by Christine E. Hayes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004037458
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Purity in Ancient Judaism written by Jacob Neusner and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1973 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Klawans
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195395840
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple written by Jonathan Klawans and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521495407
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Ritual and Morality written by Hyam Maccoby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Marcel Poorthuis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004421394
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Purity and Holiness written by Marcel Poorthuis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
