Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism (2000 Klawans), book
Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism (2000) is a book by Jonathan Klawans.
Abstract
Editions and translations
Published in New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000 and in Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Reprinted in New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Table of contents
- Part I: Ritual and Moral Impurity in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism
- Introduction
- 1. Ritual and Moral Impurity in the Hebrew Bible
- 2. Moral Impurity in the Second Temple Period
- Part II: Ritual and Moral Impurity in Ancient Jewish Literature
- Introduction
- 3. Impurity and Sin in the Literature of Qumran
- 4. Ritual Impurity and Sin in Tannaitic Literature
- 5. Siluk Ha-Shekhinah: Sin, Defilement, and the Departure of the Divine Presence
- Excursus 1: Gentiles and Gentile Lands
- 6. Ritual and Moral Impurity in the New Testament
- Summary and Conclusion