At the intersection of texts and material finds : stepped pools, stone vessels, and ritual purity among the Jews of Roman Galilee : with a postscript, from Roman Galilee to nineteenth century Chesterfield, Connecticut /

Stuart Miller examines the hermeneutical challenges posed by the material and literary evidence pertaining to ritual purity practices in Graeco-Roman Palestine and, especially, the Galilee. He contends that "stepped pools," which we now know were in use well beyond the Destruction of the T...

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Main Author: Miller, Stuart S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Göttingen, Germany : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, [2019]
Edition:2nd revised edition.
Series:Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ; v. 16.
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505 0 |t Introduction : ritual baths and ritual purity, the last fifty years --  |t Misleading use of terminology : the "miqveh," "bet tevilah," and other "ritual baths" --  |t The evolving, non-monolithic "ritual bath" --  |t Pre-rabbinic, non-rabbinic, and rabbinic ritual immersion practices in the making --  |t Did the author of P. Oxyrhynchus 840 know what a "miqveh" was? --  |t Further observations on stone vessel finds and ritual purity in light of talmudic sources --  |t The stepped pools of the western acropolis at Sepphoris --  |t Understanding the pools : biblical perceptions of purity and the habitus of the Jews of ʼEreṣ Israel --  |t Domestic Judaism and the "well-ordered bayit" --  |t Priests, purities, and the Jews of Roman and late antique Galilee : rethinking the priests of Sepphoris and the Mishmarot --  |t Non-rabbinic ritual immersion practices in post-talmudic sources --  |t From stepped pools to miqvaʼot and the society that produced them --  |t Postscript : from Roman Galilee to nineteenth-century Chesterfield, Connecticut. 
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