Purity Conceptions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: ‘Ritual-Physical’ and ‘Moral’ Purity in a Diachronic Perspective
In recent years, a large number of scholarly works have been published on purity issues in the Dead sea scrolls (Dss). taking its point of departure from J. Klawans’ book Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism, the present article aims to reexamine two aspects of the discussion about purity in the Dss....
| Published in: | Dynamics in the history of religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2013
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| In: |
Dynamics in the history of religions
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| Further subjects: | B
History of religion studies
B Alter Orient und Ägypten B Religion B Religionswissenschaften |
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| Summary: | In recent years, a large number of scholarly works have been published on purity issues in the Dead sea scrolls (Dss). taking its point of departure from J. Klawans’ book Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism, the present article aims to reexamine two aspects of the discussion about purity in the Dss. the first aspect is the question of the adequacy of extant diachronic models to explain the different perspectives on the relationship between ritual-physical and moral (im)purity.1 the issue is explicitly discussed in part one and is in the background of parts two and three. the second aspect concerns the question of the specific forms of the relationship between ritual-physical and moral impurity in the scrolls (parts 2 and 3). In this context, the adequacy of the category of ‘moral’ purity for parts of the texts is problematized and a further category, namely ‘constitutional’ impurity, introduced (part 2). |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dynamics in the history of religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004232297_019 |