Purity And Pollution In The Hebrew Bible
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Purity And Pollution In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Yitzhaq Feder
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-18
Purity And Pollution In The Hebrew Bible written by Yitzhaq Feder and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Bibles categories.
A novel account of pollution in the Hebrew Bible, from its embodied origins, to its metaphorical expression in moral discourse.
Sexual Pollution In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Eve Levavi Feinstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Sexual Pollution In The Hebrew Bible written by Eve Levavi Feinstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Religion categories.
The concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible, yet the ways biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships remain largely overlooked. Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible argues that, when applied to sexual relations, pollution language usually reflects a conception of women as sexual property susceptible to being "ruined" for particular men through contamination by others. In contrast, however, the Holiness legislation of the Pentateuch applies such language to men who engage in transgressive sexual relations, conveying the idea that male bodily purity is a prerequisite for individual and communal holiness. This understanding of sexual pollution, found in Leviticus 18, has a profound impact on later texts. In the book of Ezekiel, it contributes to a broader conception of pollution resulting from Israel's sins, which bring about the Babylonian exile. In the book of Ezra, it figures in a view of the Israelite community as a body of males contaminated by foreign women. Drawing on psychological and cross-cultural studies as well as philological and historical-critical analysis of biblical texts, Eve Feinstein's study illuminates the reasons why the idea of pollution adheres to particular domains of experience, including sex, death, and certain types of infirmity.
Impurity And Sin In Ancient Judaism
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Author : Jonathan Klawans
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-16
Impurity And Sin In Ancient Judaism written by Jonathan Klawans and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-16 with Religion categories.
This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"ritual" and "moral"-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the New Testament. In examining the evolution of ancient Jewish attitudes towards sin and defilement, Klawans sheds light on a fascinating but previously neglected topic.
Cosmologies Of Pure Realms And The Rhetoric Of Pollution
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Author : Yohan Yoo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-31
Cosmologies Of Pure Realms And The Rhetoric Of Pollution written by Yohan Yoo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-31 with Religion categories.
This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture’s beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its pollution ideas and its purification practices. The authors of this study refine Mary Douglas’ foundational theory of pollution as "matter out of place," using a comparative approach to make the case that a culture’s cosmology designates which materials in which places constitute pollution. By bringing together a historical comparison of Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions, an ethnographic study of indigenous shamanism on Jeju Island, Korea, and the reception history of biblical rhetoric about pollution in Jewish and Christian cultures, the authors show that a cosmological account of purity works effectively across multiple disparate religious and cultural contexts. They conclude that cosmologies reinforce fears of pollution, and also that embodied experiences of purification help generate cosmological ideas. Providing an innovative insight into a key topic of ritual studies, this book will be of vital interest to scholars and graduate students in religion, biblical studies, and anthropology.
Ritual And Morality
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Author : Hyam Maccoby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-07-15
Ritual And Morality written by Hyam Maccoby and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book describes in detail the ritual purity system of the Hebrew Bible, and its development into the system of the rabbis. Certain human conditions require purification before contact is made with holy foods or areas. Recent scholarly theories (Milgrom, Neusner, Douglas) are discussed, and new theories are proposed for the origin of the Red Cow and Scapegoat rites. It is argued that the impurities concerned all derive from the human cycle of generation, birth and death, from which the Sanctuary is to be guarded; not because it needs protection from demonic powers (as in other ancient purity systems), but because of the reverence due to the divine presence. While the priestly code of holiness displays traces of earlier conceptions, its ritual has lost urgent salvific force, and has become a protocol for the Temple and a dedicatory code for a priestly people; the sources distinguish it from universal morality.
They Shall Purify Themselves
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Author : Susan Haber
language : en
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Release Date : 2008
They Shall Purify Themselves written by Susan Haber and has been published by Society of Biblical Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
These essays address the connection between purity in early Judaism and the synagogue, Jesus' observance of purity laws, and women's relationships with purity in the first century.
Purity And Holiness
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Author : Marcel Poorthuis
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-01-29
Purity And Holiness written by Marcel Poorthuis and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with Religion categories.
Purity has long been recognized as one of the essential drives which determines humankind's relationship with the holy. Codes of purity and impurity, dealing with such far-ranging topics as 'external stains' and 'inner remorse', represent the physical and 'bodily' side of religious experience and provide the key to the understanding of human orientation to nature, and the structure of society, including even relationships between the sexes. Starting with the Hebrew Bible, a number of articles study some rather neglected passages from both exegetical and cultural-anthropological standpoints. Next, it is shown that the concept of purity is far more central to the New Testament than previously thought. Luke is portrayed as a Jewish-oriented writer. The discussion of purity in Mark is compared with Rabbinical and Qumranic material. Patristic discussions of purity reflect both allegorical and literal interpretations, while rabbinical rulings display a fine sense for detail and realia. Biblical references to illness are interpreted both in Christian and Jewish traditions as a metaphor for immoral behavior. The present collection of studies proceeds far beyond other collections on purity, studying both the medieval and modern periods. Purity rules, in both Christian and Jewish society, do not disappear in the Middle Ages, but become increasingly stronger. Sometimes there appear unexpected and surprising similarities between both societies. Modern society sees a decline in the importance of purity, reflecting a growing ambiguous attitude to the relationship between the body and the holy. A feminist perspective is also provided, examining the intertwined relationship between religion, gender and power. Exegesis, archaeology, liturgy, anthropology and even architecture are all used to study the complex phenomena of purity in their religious and social dimensions from both Christian and Jewish perspectives.
Sexual Pollution In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Eve Levavi Feinstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
Sexual Pollution In The Hebrew Bible written by Eve Levavi Feinstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Religion categories.
"The concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible yet the ways that biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships remain largely overlooked. Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible argues that the concept of pollution is rooted in disgust and that pollution language applied to sexual relations expresses a sense of bodily contamination resulting from revulsion. Most texts in the Hebrew Bible that use pollution language in sexual contexts reflect a conception of women as sexual property susceptible to being "ruined" for particular men through contamination by others. In contrast, the Holiness legislation of the Pentateuch applies pollution language to men who engage in transgressive sexual relations, conveying the idea that male bodily purity is a prerequisite for individual and communal holiness.Sexual transgressions contaminate the male body and ultimately result in exile when the land vomits out its inhabitants. The Holiness legislation's conception of sexual pollution, which is found in Leviticus 18, had a profound impact on later texts. In the book of Ezekiel, it contributes to a broader conception of pollution resulting from Israel's sins, which led to the Babylonian exile. In the book of Ezra, it figures in a view of the Israelite community as a body of males contaminated by foreign women. Yet the idea of female pollution rooted in a view of women as sexual property persisted alongside the idea of male pollution as an impediment to holiness. Eva Feinstein illuminates why the idea of pollution adheres to particular domains of experience, including sex, death, and certain types of infirmity. Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible allows for a more thorough understanding of sexual pollution, its particular characteristics, and the role that it plays in biblical literature"--
Perspectives On Purity And Purification In The Bible
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Author : Baruch J. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-12-01
Perspectives On Purity And Purification In The Bible written by Baruch J. Schwartz and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-01 with Religion categories.
This book is a collection of essays on purificaton and atonement in the Hebrew Bible that provides new insights into the discussion of these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and anthropological approaches to the topics. The collection also examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what extent it is possible to speak of the function or meaning of ritual, even within the highly systematic priestly texts.
Impurity And Gender In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Elizabeth W. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-09-17
Impurity And Gender In The Hebrew Bible written by Elizabeth W. Goldstein and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Religion categories.
Impurity and Gender in the Hebrew Bible explores the role of female blood in the Hebrew Bible and considers its theological implications for future understandings of purity and impurity in the Jewish religion. Influenced by the work of Jonathan Klawans (Sin and Impurity in Ancient Judaism), and using the categories of ritual and moral impurities, this book analyzes the way in which these categories intersect with women and with the impurity of female blood, and reads the biblical foundations of purity and blood taboos with a feminist lens. Ultimately, the purpose of this book is to understand the intersection between impurity and gender, figuratively and non-figuratively, in the Hebrew Bible. Goldstein traces this intersection from the years 1000 BCE-250 BCE and ends with a consideration of female impurity in the literature of Qumran.