Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor

ISBN-13: 9781316517574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 336 str.

Yitzaq Feder

Opis

A novel account of pollution in the Hebrew Bible, from its embodied origins, to its metaphorical expression in moral discourse.

Recenzje

'… any scholar interested in this topic will need to reckon with Feder's nuanced, thought-provoking approach … Highly recommended.' J. S. Kaminsky, Choice

Spis treści

I. Setting the Stage: 1. Introduction; 2. What is pollution?; II. Embodying Pollution Through the Life Cycle; 3. The 'touch' of leprosy: diagnosing disease between language and experience; 4. The missing ritual for healing skin disease; 5. Diagnosis sin; 6. Naturalizing disease: pollution as a casual theory; B. The soul: from the table to the grave: 7. You are what you eat: impure food and the soul; 8. Death and the polluting spirit; C. Mating: 9. Sexual pollutions: the moralized body; 10. Gender fluidity and the danger of leaky manhood; 11. Did women need to wash? III. Images, Codes and Discourse: 12. Contagious holiness; 13. Conclusion: naturalizing a religious concept.