Inhalt: | Introduction: purity research and resources -- Purity and impurity: a short summary -- Levels of explanation for ideas of impurity: why structuralist and symbolic models often fail while evolutionary and cognitive models succeed -- Purity and Persia -- The role of disgust in Priestly purity law: insights from conceptual metaphor and blending theories -- Disgust in body, mind, and language: the case of impurity in the Hebrew Bible -- Purification -- Concern, custom, and common sense: discharge, handwashing, and graded purification -- Jesus and the Zābâ: implications for interpreting Mark -- Skin-disease contamination and exclusion: how not to reconstruct history for a good cause -- Purity as popular practice: erasing the anachronistic divide between household and cult -- A perhaps less Halakic Jesus and purity: on prophetic criticism, Halakic innovation, and Rabbinic anachronism. "This collection of [twelve] essays by Thomas Kazen focuses on issues of purity and purification in early Judaism and the Jesus tradition. During the late Second Temple period, Jewish purity practices became more prominent than before and underwent substantial developments. These essays advance the ongoing conversation and debate about a number of key issues in the field, such as the relationship between ritual and morality, the role and function of metaphor, and the use of evolutionary and embodied perspectives. Kazen's research stands in constant dialogue with the major currents and main figures in purity research, including historical (origin, development, practice) and cognitive (evolutionary, emotional, conceptual) approaches."-- |
