At the intersection of texts and material finds : : stepped pools, stone vessels, and ritual purity among the Jews of Roman Galilee / / Stuart S. Miller.

"Stuart Miller examines the hermeneutical challenges posed by the material and literary evidence pertaining to ritual purity practices in Graeco-Roman Palestine and, especially, the Galilee. He contends that "stepped pools," which we now know were in use well beyond the Destruction of...

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Superior document:Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ; Volume 16
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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:Second revised edition.
Language:English
Series:Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ; Volume 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource (424 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : ritual baths and ritual purity, the last fifty years
  • Misleading use of terminology : the "miqveh," "bet tevilah," and other "ritual baths"
  • The evolving, non-monolithic "ritual bath"
  • Pre-rabbinic, non-rabbinic, and rabbinic ritual immersion practices in the making
  • Did the author of P. Oxyrhynchus 840 know what a "miqveh" was?
  • Further observations on stone vessel finds and ritual purity in light of talmudic sources
  • The stepped pools of the western acropolis at Sepphoris
  • Understanding the pools : biblical perceptions of purity and the habitus of the Jews of ʼEreṣ Israel
  • Domestic Judaism and the "well-ordered bayit"
  • Priests, purities, and the Jews of Roman and late antique Galilee : rethinking the priests of Sepphoris and the Mishmarot
  • Non-rabbinic ritual immersion practices in post-talmudic sources
  • From stepped pools to miqvaʼot and the society that produced them
  • Postscript : from Roman Galilee to nineteenth-century Chesterfield, Connecticut.