Perspectives on purity and purification in the Bible /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schwartz, Baruch J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : T & T Clark, [2008]
Series:T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 474.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The function of the Nazirite's concluding purification offering / Roy E. Gane
  • Sin and impurity : atoned or purified? yes! / Jay Sklar
  • Pure, impure, permitted, prohibited : a study of classification systems in P / Naphtali S. Meshel
  • Dirt and disgust : body and morality in Biblical purity laws / Thomas Kazen
  • Does the priestly purity code domesticate women? / David Tabb Stewart
  • Blood as purificant in priestly Torah : what do we know and how do we know it? / William K. Gilders
  • Methodology and ideology in the study of priestly ritual / Jonathan Klawans
  • Pagans and priests : critical reflections on method / Frank H. Gorman.