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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 chapter to each of the impurities discussed in the Scrolls: death, leprosy, bodily discharges and outsiders. In each of these chapters, emphasis is placed on the large amount of congruence of the Qumran texts with each other on the subject of purity and the similarities and differences between the Qumran No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)296.1Religions Other Religions Judaism Jewish writingsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |