RT Article
T1 Concern, Custom and Common Sense
JF Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
VO 13
IS 2/3
SP 150
OP 187
A1 Kazen, Thomas
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1552222136
AB This essay interacts with E.P. Sanders’s work on purity, building on some of his insights, while disagreeing on other points. Sanders’s appeal to historical imagination and common sense is discussed and problematized. The essay deals at length with issues such as the expulsion, isolation, and integration of various impurity bearers, and the emergence of additional water rites to mitigate impurities and prevent unnecessary contamination. The evidence under discussion includes Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea texts, Philo, Josephus, New Testament, and rabbinic literature.
K1 Purity : impurity : skin disease : genital discharge : expulsion : isolation : graded purification : first-day ablution : hand washing : ṭěbûl yôm
DO 10.1163/17455197-01302006