Purity, community, and ritual in early Christian literature /
Blidstein, Moshe, 1982-
Purity, community, and ritual in early Christian literature / Moshe Blidstein. - First Edition. - 294 pages ; 24 cm. - Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions. . - Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions. .
Revision of author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2014 under title: 'All is pure for the pure' : redefining purity and defilement in early Greek Christianity, from Paul to Origen.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-274) and indexes.
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.
9780198791959 019879195X
2016946821
Purity, Ritual--Christianity--History of doctrines.
Purity, Ritual--Greece.
Purity, Ritual--Rome.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism--History of doctrines.
BT590.R57 / B55 2017
270.1
Purity, community, and ritual in early Christian literature / Moshe Blidstein. - First Edition. - 294 pages ; 24 cm. - Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions. . - Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions. .
Revision of author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2014 under title: 'All is pure for the pure' : redefining purity and defilement in early Greek Christianity, from Paul to Origen.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-274) and indexes.
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.
9780198791959 019879195X
2016946821
Purity, Ritual--Christianity--History of doctrines.
Purity, Ritual--Greece.
Purity, Ritual--Rome.
Purity, Ritual--Judaism--History of doctrines.
BT590.R57 / B55 2017
270.1