Purity, community, and ritual in early christian literature / Moshe Blidstein

Englisch

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

294 Seiten ; 24 cm

Bibliography p. 237 - 274

978-0-19-879195-9 hbk. : £70.00

*Frühchristentum / Reinheit / Ritual

*Frühchristentum / Reinheit / Ritual

*Purity, Ritual -- Christianity -- History of doctrines ; Purity, Ritual -- Greece ; Purity, Ritual -- Rome ; Purity, Ritual -- Judaism -- History of doctrines

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BT590.R57

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 270.1 ; 241

Part I. Purity in its contexts. Introducing purity discourses -- Purity and defilement in the Greco-Roman East and in Judaism -- Part II. Breaking with the past. Early Christian attitudes towards dietary impurity -- Early Christian attitudes towards death defilement -- Part III. Roots of a new paradigm: the first two centuries. Baptism as purification in early Christian texts -- The pure community, the holy sacrifice, and the defilement of sin -- Sexual defilement in early Christian texts -- Part IV. New configurations: purity, body, and community in the third century. Dietary and sexual purity in Jewish-Christian communities -- The Origenist synthesis -- General conclusions

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