Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah Furstenberg Yair
Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah Furstenberg Yair The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. It examines how…
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Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah Furstenberg Yair
The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. 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. 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.
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
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