They Shall Purify Themselves : Essays on Purity in Early Judaism

by Haber, Susan; Reinhartz, Adele

• ISBN13: 9789004146822
• ISBN10: 9004146822
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments	p. 1
Bibliographic Studies
Ritual and Moral Purity and Impurity in the Hebrew Bible	p. 9
Ritual and Moral Purity and Impurity in Second Temple Judaism	p. 31
Ritual and Moral Purity and Impurity in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 47
Literary Studies
Living and Dying for the Law: The Mother-Martyrs of 2 Maccabees	p. 75
Metaphor and Meaning in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 93
A Woman's Touch: Feminist Encounters with the Hemorrhaging Woman in Mark 5:24-34	p. 125
From Priestly Torah to Christ Cultus: The Re-Vision of Cult in Hebrews	p. 143
Historical Studies
Common Judaism, Common Synagogue? Purity, Holiness, and Sacred Space at the Turn of the Common Era	p. 161
Going Up to Jerusalem: Purity, Pilgrimage, and the Historical Jesus	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 207
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 223
Index of Modern Authors	p. 235
Subject Index	p. 239
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