The purity texts /
Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology. After a general introduction and an examination of individual texts for the contribution of each to the subject of purity, the book devotes a chapt...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
T & T Clark International,
2004
London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2004 London ; New York : [2004], ©2004 London ; New York : c2004 London ; New York : ©2004 London ; New York : [2004] |
| Series: | Companion to the Qumran scrolls ;
5 Companion to the Qumran scrolls ; v. 5 Companion to the Qumran scrolls ; 5 |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I concept of purity at Qumran
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sources
- pt. II. impurities
- 3. Corpse impurity
- 4. Leprosy
- 5. Bodily discharges
- 6. Outsiders
- App. A. Purity correlations in the Qumran scrolls
- App. B. comparison of the impurity laws of the Bible, Qumran and the Rabbis.