RT Article
T1 Did Jews Rinse their Hands 'with a Fist' (Mark 7.3)?
JF New Testament studies
VO 65
IS 2
SP 139
OP 147
A1 Burkett, Delbert 1949-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663492301
AB According to UBS5 and NA28, Mark 7.3 says that Pharisees and other Jews do not eat unless they rinse their hands 'with a fist' (?????). This notorious crux interpretum has resisted all efforts to give it a plausible meaning. The present article reviews these efforts and suggests that it is time to abandon this reading in favour of the variant reading ????? in the sense 'repeatedly'. This translation best fits the practice described in the Mishnah and other rabbinic literature, in which devout Jews rinsed their hands twice before the meal, twice after, and often twice or more during.
K1 Bibel : Markusevangelium : 7,3
K1 Mark 7.3
K1 handwashing
K1 rinsing hands
K1 washing hands
K1 with a fist
DO 10.1017/S0028688518000358