Purity and holiness : : the heritage of Leviticus / / edited by M. J. H. M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz.

• Superior document: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-; Schwartz, Joshua,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston ;, Köln : : Brill,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Includes indexes.

Purity has long been recognized as one of the essential drives which determines humankind's relationship with the holy. Codes of purity and impurity, dealing with such far-ranging topics as 'external stains' and 'inner remorse', represent the physical and 'bodily'...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz
• Purity and Holiness: an Introductory Survey / Marcel Poorthuis and Joshua Schwartz
• The Dynamics of Purity in the Priestly System / Jacob Milgrom
• Impurity of Land Animals / Mary Douglas
• Israel’s Holiness: The Torah Traditions / Baruch J. Schwartz
• “They saw that his forehead was leprous” (2 Chr 26:20) / Pancratius C. Beentjes
• Jewish Purity Laws as Viewed by the Church Fathers and by the Early Followers of Jesus / Peter J. Tomson
• Purity and Impurity of the Body in Luke-Acts / Bart J. Koet
• Rudolph Otto Revisited: Numinosity Vis-à-Vis Rabbinic, Patristic and Gnostic Interpretations of Scripture / Marcel Poorthuis
• Impurity between Intention and Deed: Purity Disputes in First Century Judaism and in the New Testament / Eric Ottenheijm
• Reflections on Hand-Washing, Hand-Purity and Holy Scripture in Rabbinical Literature / Chaim Milikowsky
• The Concept of Holiness and the Requirements of Purity in Second Temple and Tannaic Literature / Cana Werman
• Leviticus 12–15 in Early Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst
• Sin and Illness in the Targum of the Prophets / Alberdina Houtman
• On Birds, Rabbis and Skin Disease / Joshua Schwartz
• Non-Priestly Purity and its Religious Aspects according to Historical Sources and Archaeological Findings / Eyal Regev
• ‘Contagium’ and Images of Self in Late Sixth-Century Gaul / Giselle de Nie
• Medieval Models of Purity and Sanctity: Ashkenazic Women in the Synagogue / Jeffrey Robert Woolf
• “A Relic of Superstition”: Bodily Impurity and the Church from Gregory the Great to the Twelfth-Century Decretists / Rob Meens
• Leviticus 12, Mary and Wax: Purification and Churching in Late Medieval Christianity / Charles Caspers
• Reclaiming Ritual: A Gendered Approach to (Im)Purity / Anne-Marie Korte
• The Pure Life of Grietje Schouten ( 1915–1947): Rereading Mary Douglas’s Natural Symbols / Paul Post
• Index of Names and Subjects / M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz
• Index of Ancient Sources / M.J.H.M. Poorthuis and J. Schwartz.