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