"They shall purify themselves" : essays on purity in early Judaism / Susan Haber ; edited by Adele Reinhartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haber, Susan, 1957-2006.

Contributor:

Reinhartz, Adele, 1953-

Series:

Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 24.

Early Judaism and its literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purity, Ritual--Judaism--History of doctrines.

Purity, Ritual.

Purity, Ritual--Judaism.

Physical Description:

x, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2008]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9781589833555

1589833554

OCLC:

229446163