Explores how the concern for purity shaped the worldview of Jews during the Second Temple period as well as their daily practices and social relations. It examines how different groups offered competing visions and methods for living a life of purity, which embodied a promise for personal and cosmic salvation and at the same time determined the degree of sectarian separation.
Explores how the concern for purity shaped the worldview of Jews during the Second Temple period as well as their daily practices and social relations. It examines how different groups offered competing visions and methods for living a life of purity, which embodied a promise for personal and cosmic salvation and at the same time determined the degree of sectarian separation.
Yair Furstenberg is Associate Professor of Talmud at Hebrew University, where he serves as chair of the department. Among his publications are Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity: From the Books of Maccabees to the Babylonian Talmud and the edited volume Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World.
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Preface Note on Translations and Editions List of Abbreviations Introduction: From Pharisees to Rabbis Part One: The Varieties of Purity 1. Biblical Foundations, New Conception 2. Exclusive Paths to Purity from Qumran to Jesus Part Two: Communal Identities 3. The Purity of the Pharisees 4. Outsider Impurity and the Forms of Judean Sectarianism 5. Inclusion and Marginalization Part Three: Tradition and Invention 6. Changing Social Contexts 7. The End of Purity Epilogue: The Rabbinic Movement within Shifting Religious Cultures Notes Bibliography Index
Preface Note on Translations and Editions List of Abbreviations Introduction: From Pharisees to Rabbis Part One: The Varieties of Purity 1. Biblical Foundations, New Conception 2. Exclusive Paths to Purity from Qumran to Jesus Part Two: Communal Identities 3. The Purity of the Pharisees 4. Outsider Impurity and the Forms of Judean Sectarianism 5. Inclusion and Marginalization Part Three: Tradition and Invention 6. Changing Social Contexts 7. The End of Purity Epilogue: The Rabbinic Movement within Shifting Religious Cultures Notes Bibliography Index
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