Full Description
This book is a collection of essays on purificaton and atonement in the Hebrew Bible that provides new insights into the discussion of these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and anthropological approaches to the topics. The collection also examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what extent it is possible to speak of the function or meaning of ritual, even within the highly systematic priestly texts.
Contents
Baruch J. Schwatrz and David P. Wright
Introduction
Roy E. Gane, Andrews University
The Function of the Nazirite's Concluding Purification Offering
Jonathan Klawans, Boston University
Methodology and Ideology in the Study of Priestly Ritual
Jay Sklar, Covenant Theological Seminary
Sin and Impurity: Atoned and Purified? Yes!
Frank Gorman, Bethany College
Priests and Pagans: Ritual Structures, Blood, and Purification
Naphtali S. Meshel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Pure, Impure, Permitted, Prohibited: A Study of
Classification Systems in P
William K. Gilders, Emory University
Blood as Purificant in Priestly Torah: What Do We Know and How Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
David Tabb Stewart, Southwestern University
Does the Priestly Purity Code (Leviticus 11-15) Domesticate Women?
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology
Dirt, Disgust, and Demons: Body and Morality in Biblical Purity Laws
