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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