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Purity and pollution in the Hebrew Bible : from embodied experience to moral metaphor / Yitzhaq Feder, University of Haifa

First published

Englisch

Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2022

xxi, 313 Seiten : Diagramme

Includes bibliographical references and index

Rezensiert in: Watts, James W. *1960-*: Pollution in the Bible and in Cognitive Science: A Review of Recent Works by Thomas Kazen and Yitzhaq Feder, 2023

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage SSG). UB Tübingen

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Feder, Yitzhaq *1977-*: Purity and pollution in the Hebrew Bible. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (xxi, 313 pages)

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Feder, Yitzhaq *1977-*: Purity and pollution in the Hebrew Bible. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (338 pages)

978-1-316-51757-4 hardback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-009-04264-2 (Fernzugriff) ebook

9781316517574

10.1017/9781009042642

*Bibel. Altes Testament / Reinheit / Verschmutzung

*Bible -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Pollution -- Biblical teaching ; Purity, Ritual -- Biblical teaching

*RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BS1171.3

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 221.6/6; ; 221.66;

"In this book, Yitzhaq Feder presents a novel and compelling account of pollution in ancient Israel, from its emergence as an embodied concept, rooted in physiological experience, to its expression as a pervasive metaphor in social-moral discourse. Feder aims to bring the biblical and ancient Near Eastern evidence into a sustained conversation with anthropological and psychological research through comparison with notions of contagion in other ancient and modern cultural contexts. Showing how numerous interpretive difficulties are the result of imposing modern concepts on the ancient texts, he guides readers through wide-ranging parallels to biblical attitudes in ancient Near Eastern, ethnographic, and modern cultures. Feder demonstrates how contemporary evolutionary and psychological research can be applied to ancient textual evidence. He also suggests a path of synthesis that can move beyond the polarized positions which currently characterize modern academic and popular debates bearing on the roles of biology and culture in shaping human behavior"--