Scholars have defined holiness in many ways. These range from the vague and ethereal adjective numinous to practical matters of ritual purity. When a pile of grain and God can both be called holy, how should we understand the elusive meaning of this word?
Scholars have defined holiness in many ways. These range from the vague and ethereal adjective numinous to practical matters of ritual purity. When a ...
Scholars have defined holiness in many ways. These range from the vague and ethereal adjective numinous to practical matters of ritual purity. When a pile of grain and God can both be called holy, how should we understand the elusive meaning of this word?
Scholars have defined holiness in many ways. These range from the vague and ethereal adjective numinous to practical matters of ritual purity. When a ...
Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology. After a general introduction and an examination of individual texts for the contribution of each to the subject of purity, the book devotes a chapter to each of the impurities discussed in the Scrolls: death, leprosy, bodily discharges and outsiders. In each of these chapters, emphasis is placed on the large amount of congruence of the Qumran texts with each other on the subject of purity and the similarities and differences between the...
Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideolog...
Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcastand nearly got someone killed. Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silenceto learn to keep her mouth shut, and to stop hurting anyone else. And if she thinks keeping secrets is hard, not speaking up when she's ignored, ridiculed and even attacked is worse. But there's strength in silence, and in the new friends who are, shockingly, coming her waypeople she never noticed before; a boy she might even fall for. If only her new friends can forgive what...
Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcastand nearly ...
"If she'd waited less than two weeks, my sister would be June who died in June. But I guess she never took that into account."
Harper Scott's older sister, June, took her own life a week before high school graduation, leaving Harper devastated. So when her divorcing parents decide to split up June's ashes, Harper steals the urn and takes off cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of goingCalifornia.
Enter Jake Tolan, a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsessionand an unknown connection to June. When he insists on joining them, Harper's...
"If she'd waited less than two weeks, my sister would be June who died in June. But I guess she never took that into account."
