The Hermeneutics and Genesis of the Red Cow Ritual
The difficulties with the red cow ritual have long exercised readers of the book of Numbers. The ritual in Num 19:1–22 describes how cleansing from corpse impurity is to be effected. A red cow is burned in a manner carefully prescribed in order to produce ash. Mixed with water, the ash is then sprin...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2012
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2012, Volume: 105, Issue: 3, Pages: 351-371 |
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