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1 online resource |
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Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions |
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Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions.
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Cover; Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I: Purity in its Contexts; 1: Introducing Purity Discourses; SCHOLARLY NEGLET; PURITY PRACTICE AND PURITY DISCOURSE; EXAMINING DICHOTOMIES; GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL RANGE, AND SUBJECTS DISCUSSED; CHAPTER OUTLINES; 2: Purity and Defilement in the Greco-Roman East and in Judaism; THE GRECO-ROMAN EAST; Marking the sacred, controlling disgust; Reconciliation, expiation, and morality; Initiation, mysteries, and communal cults; Illness and healing; Philosophy and asceticism |
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Impure purifications and failed ritualsSummary; JUDAISM, FROM LEVITICUS TO THE MISHNA; Purity and defilement in the Hebrew Bible; Purity and defilement in Late Second Temple Judaism; Food impurity, sectarianism, and initiation; Sexual sins and genealogical purity; The dietary laws; Animal blood; The anthropology of defilement; Purity and defilement in rabbinic texts; Summary; Part II: Breaking with the Past; 3: Early Christian Attitudes Towards Dietary Impurity; DIETARY PURITY IN FIRST-CENTURY TEXTS; Dietary restrictions and the biblical dietary laws; Paul; Gospels; Acts |
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Pseudo- and Deutero-Pauline lettersFood offered to idols; Paul; Acts; CHRISTIAN DIETARY OBSERVANCES IN THE SECOND AND THIRD CENTURIES; Food offered to idols; Food offered to idols as an identity marker; The impurity mechanism of food offered to idols according to Clement of Alexandria; Blood and strangled animals; Meat, wine, and fasting; Summary; ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE BIBLICAL DIETARY LAWS IN SECOND- AND THIRD-CENTURY TEXTS; Arguments concerning the dietary laws in the second century; The symbolic alternative; Jewish as opposed to Christian identity; Historical and ascetic arguments |
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CONCLUSIONS4: Early Christian Attitudes TowardsDeath Defilement; EARLY EVIDENCE; THE DIDASCALIA APOSTOLORUM; ORIGEN; METHODIUS OF OLYMPUS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND CHRISTIAN PRAXIS; CONCLUSIONS; Part III: Roots of a New Paradigm: The First Two Centuries; 5: Baptism as Purification in Early Christian Texts; BAPTISM AND PURIFICATION IN THE FIRST CENTURY: FROM PAUL TO ACTS; The Pauline Epistles; The Gospels and Acts; Hebrews and 1 Peter; Summary; BAPTISMAL PURITY DISCOURSE IN THE SECOND AND EARLY THIRD CENTURIES; Jewish purifications, Christian baptism; Resisting the ritual structure |
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Theorizing the ritualThe Valentinians; Clement of Alexandria; The Acts of Thomas; Summary; CONCLUSIONS; 6: The Pure Community, the Holy Sacrifice, and the Defilement of Sin; THE EFFECT OF THE EUCHARIST ON THE COMMUNICANT; THE EUCHARIST AS SACRED OBJECT REQUIRING PURITY; REPENTANCE AND PENANCE AS PURIFICATION; CONCLUSIONS; 7: Sexual Defilement in Early Christian Texts; THE DEFILEMENT OF SEXUAL SIN IN PAUL'S EPISTLES; PURE HEARTS, PURE BODIES; The Shepherd of Hermas; The Gospel of Thomas: singleness and purity; The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles; Summary |
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This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Purity, Ritual -- Christianity -- History
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Purity, Ritual -- Judaism -- History of doctrines
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Purity, Ritual -- Greece.
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Purity, Ritual -- Rome
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
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Purity, Ritual -- Christianity
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Purity, Ritual
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Purity, Ritual -- Judaism -- History of doctrines
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Frühchristentum
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Gemeinschaft
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Literatur
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Reinheit
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Ritual
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Waschung
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192509765 |
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0192509764 |
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9780191834172 |
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0191834173 |
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019879195X |
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9780198791959 |
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