Christine Hayes. Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 309 pp.

Jonathan Klawans recently argued that there are two distinct types of purity in the Bible: ritual and moral. In biblical texts, the impurity of Gentiles is not ritual, but moral (the exception being corpse impurity, to which Gentiles are susceptible). Moral impurity is not contagious and is not subj...

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Main Author: Kulp, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2003
In: AJS review
Year: 2003, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 325-327
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