Yitzhaq Feder (Israel University of Haifa)

Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the biblical notions of purity and pollution as they relate to the body. It integrates psychological and anthropological insights to explain their implications for understanding infectious disease, sexuality, diet, souls and morality in ancient Israel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781009045650
• ISBN-10: 1009045652
• Artikelnr.: 70243946

Autorenporträt

Yitzhaq Feder is a lecturer at the University of Haifa. His research integrates textual study with advances in psychological and anthropological research. He has received numerous prizes, including the 2012 SBL David Noel Freedman Award for Excellence and Innovation in Biblical Studies. His most recent research focuses on biblical and ancient Near Eastern notions of taboo and their implications for understanding the emergence and historical development of morality.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Setting the Stage: 1. Introduction
2. What is pollution?
II. Embodying Pollution Through the Life Cycle
3. The 'touch' of leprosy: diagnosing disease between language and experience
4. The missing ritual for healing skin disease
5. Diagnosis sin
6. Naturalizing disease: pollution as a casual theory
B. The soul: from the table to the grave: 7. You are what you eat: impure food and the soul
8. Death and the polluting spirit
C. Mating: 9. Sexual pollutions: the moralized body
10. Gender fluidity and the danger of leaky manhood
11. Did women need to wash? III. Images, Codes and Discourse: 12. Contagious holiness
13. Conclusion: naturalizing a religious concept.