Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible

Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible

From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor

Feder, Yitzhaq

Cambridge University Press

07/2024

335

Mole

9781009045650

15 a 20 dias

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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.
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