Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism (2000 Klawans), book

Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism (2000) is a book by Jonathan Klawans.

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