Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 23, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195132908
Description: Jonathan Klawans shows how the link between moral impurity and physical defilement, as understood by the ancient Hebrews, can be followed through to St Paul and the Christian era when the need for ritual purity was finally rejected.