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"They shall purify themselves" : essays on purity in early Judaism
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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.
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- Creator
- Susan Haber ; edited by Adele Reinhartz
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- x, 240 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1589833740, 9781589833555, 1589833554, 9781589833746
- OCLC
- ocn229446163, ocn922967822, ocn323304487
- Collection of essays published elsewhere previously between 2003-2008 before the author's untimely death in 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and indexes.
- Ritual and moral purity and impurity in the Hebrew Bible -- Ritual and moral purity and impurity in Second Temple Judaism -- Ritual and moral purity and impurity in the Dead Sea scrolls -- Living and dying for the Law : the mother-martyrs of 2 Maccabees -- Metaphor and meaning in the Dead Sea scrolls -- A woman's touch : feminist encounters with the hemorrhaging woman in Mark 5:24-34 -- From priestly Torah to Christ cultus : the re-vision of cult in Hebrews -- Common Judaism, common synagogue? : purity, holiness, and sacred space at the turn of the common era -- Going up to Jerusalem : purity, pilgrimage, and the historical Jesus