Purity and Impurity: An analysis of the Concept of Purity/Impurity in the New Testament Gospels and the Pauline Letters - Couverture souple

Gilbrant, Ragnhild

 
9783639238617: Purity and Impurity: An analysis of the Concept of Purity/Impurity in the New Testament Gospels and the Pauline Letters
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639238613 ISBN 13 : 9783639238617
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010

Synopsis

The concept of impurity is, in Christian culture, often associated with sin and sexual immorality. This is far from the understanding we find in Biblical Judaism. Moral impurity, however, was a sin, which caused the presence of God to disappear, but ritual impurity was a quite different concept resulting from natural processes which should not be avoided. Jesus also employed the term impure spirits, as an ontological category. And during the 2. Temple periode we find the concept og genealogical impurity. This book presents an analysis of the different kinds of impurities and the regime and rituals of purification. The author argues that Jesus and Paul used the concept of purity/impurity in quite different meanings, according to their different contexts in 1. century Israel and Roman societies.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639238613
ISBN 13 
9783639238617
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
268
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