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Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Ian Werrett
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/11/2007

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This book represents the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran. Utilizing an independent approach to the relevant documents from Qumran, this study discusses the primary and secondary literature on the five major categories of impurity in the scrolls (i.e., diseases, clean/unclean animals, corpses, bodily discharges, and sexual misdeeds). This examination is supported by a comparison between the scrolls' purity legislations and their biblical counterparts. The book culminates with a comparison between the purity rulings in the scrolls and a diachronic reading of the explicit agreements and disagreements found therein. The result is a far more comprehensive and nuanced interpretation than has been previously offered.
ISBN:
9789004156234
9789004156234
Category:
Biblical studies & exegesis
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-11-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Brill
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
350
Dimensions (mm):
240x160x25mm
Weight:
0.76kg

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