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Purity, community, and ritual in early Christian literature / Moshe Blidstein.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religionsEdition: First EditionDescription: 294 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198791959
  • 019879195X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BT590.R57 B55 2017
Contents:
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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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.

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