Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible

ISBN: 9780567028327 出版年：2008 页码：129 Baruch J Schwartz Naphtali S Meshel Jeffrey Stackert David P Wright Bloomsbury Publishing

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.