How Unclean Were Tax-Collectors?
The ideas that tax-collectors were unusually unclean and were regarded as incapable of repentance derive from misreadings of passages in the Mishnah and Talmud. These ideas sometimes form part of a general mistaken thesis that first-century Jewish society was riven by purity-based divisions. In fact...
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Sage
2001
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2001, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 60-63 |
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