This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.
This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.
Moshe Blidstein is Postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: Purity in its contexts 1: Introducing purity discourses 2: Purity and defilement in the Greco-Roman East and in Judaism Part II: Breaking with the past 3: Early Christian attitudes towards dietary impurity 4: Early Christian attitudes towards death defilement Part III: Roots of a new paradigm: the first two centuries 5: Baptism as purification in Early Christian texts 6: The pure community, the holy sacrifice, and the defilement of sin 7: Sexual defilement in Early Christian texts Part IV: New configurations: purity, body, and community in the third century 8: Dietary and sexual purity in Jewish-Christian communities 9: The Origenist synthesis 10: General Conclusions Bibliography Index
Part I: Purity in its contexts 1: Introducing purity discourses 2: Purity and defilement in the Greco-Roman East and in Judaism Part II: Breaking with the past 3: Early Christian attitudes towards dietary impurity 4: Early Christian attitudes towards death defilement Part III: Roots of a new paradigm: the first two centuries 5: Baptism as purification in Early Christian texts 6: The pure community, the holy sacrifice, and the defilement of sin 7: Sexual defilement in Early Christian texts Part IV: New configurations: purity, body, and community in the third century 8: Dietary and sexual purity in Jewish-Christian communities 9: The Origenist synthesis 10: General Conclusions Bibliography Index
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