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Purity Texts.

Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology. After a general introduction and an examination of individual texts for the contribution of each to the subject of purity, the book devotes a chapt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harrington, Hannah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006.
Colección:Companion to the Qumran scrolls.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Editions, Translations and Bibliographies; PART I: The Concept of Purity at Qumran; 1. Introduction; 2. Sources; PART II: The Impurities; 3. Corpse Impurity; 4. Leprosy; 5. Bodily Discharges; 6. Outsiders; Conclusion; Appendix A: Purity Correlations in the Qumran Scrolls; Appendix B: A Comparison of the Impurity Laws of the Bible, Qumran and the Rabbis; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.