Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah

The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. Purity and Identity...
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Author: Yair Furstenberg
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Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah by Furstenberg, Yair

Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah

€83,36

Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah

€83,36
Author: Yair Furstenberg
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The concern for purity was the cornerstone of the religious culture of ancient Judaism. Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism explores how this concern shaped the worldview of Jews during the Second Temple period as well as their daily practices and social relations. It examines how different groups offered competing visions and methods for living a life of purity, which embodied a promise for personal and cosmic salvation and at the same time determined the degree of sectarian separation.

Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism offers a comprehensive description of the world of purity among the Jews of the Second Temple period in general and within the tradition of the Pharisees in particular. Yair Furstenberg explores the language of purity that provided Jews in antiquity a powerful tool for organizing legal, social, and ideological boundaries, and its study is therefore pertinent for understanding the powers that shaped the varieties of Second Temple Judaism and their later offshoots: Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism.

Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism offers new methods for carefully integrating the New Testament, Qumran literature, and early rabbinic sources into a comprehensive history of purity laws from the world of the Second Temple and the Pharisees to the later rabbinic movement, allowing the reader to trace the emergence of new religious sensibilities within changing social and cultic circumstances.



Author: Yair Furstenberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
ISBN: 9780253067722

About the Author
Yair Furstenberg is Associate Professor of Talmud at Hebrew University, where he serves as chair of the department. Among his publications are Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity: From the Books of Maccabees to the Babylonian Talmud and the edited volume Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World.

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