ISBN:
9780198791959
Language:
English
Pages:
294 Seiten
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
DDC:
270.1
Keywords:
Purity, Ritual Christianity
;
History of doctrines
;
Purity, Ritual
;
Purity, Ritual
;
Purity, Ritual Judaism
;
History of doctrines
;
Frühchristentum
;
Reinheit
;
Ritual
Abstract:
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
Note:
Bibliography p. 237 - 274
