At the intersection of texts and material finds : : stepped pools, stone vessels, and ritual purity among the Jews of Roman Galilee / / Stuart S. Miller.
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| Superior document: | Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements, Volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Journal of ancient Judaism. Supplements ;
Volume 16. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Notes: | "With a Postscript: From Roman Galilee to Nineteenth Century Chesterfield, Connecticut." |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ritual Baths and Ritual Purity, the Last Fifty Years; Chapter One: Misleading Use of Terminology: The "miqveh," "bet tevilah," and other "Ritual Baths"; Chapter Two: The Evolving, Non-Monolithic "Ritual Bath"; Chapter Three: Pre-Rabbinic, Non-Rabbinic, and Rabbinic Ritual Immersion Practices in the Making; Divided Stairways, Dual Entrances, and Sectarian Viewpoints; "Nissoq," Double Pools, and the "Osar"; Views from Qumran and the Rabbis; Conclusion
- Chapter Five: Further Observations on Stone Vessel Finds and Ritual Purity in Light of Talmudic SourcesConclusion; Chapter Six: The Stepped Pools of the Western Acropolis at Sepphoris; Chapter Seven: Understanding the Pools: Biblical Perceptions of Purity and the Habitus of the Jews of 'Eres Israel; Chapter Eight: Domestic Judaism and the "Well-Ordered Bayit:" Who Bathed/Immersed in the Stepped Pools at Sepphoris and Why?; Introduction; Popular Devotion to Ritual Purity Practices: The Rabbis' Perspective; Hand Washing before Eating; Bodily Immersion and Sexuality; Popular Perceptions of Water
- Chapter Eleven: From Stepped Pools to Miqva'ot and the Society that Produced ThemConcluding Thoughts; Postscript: From Roman Galilee to Nineteenth-Century Chesterfield, Connecticut; Bibliography; Index of Primary Sources; Index of Places; Index of Foreign Terms, Phrases, and Expressions; Index of Subjects