TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blidstein,Moshe
TI  - Purity, community, and ritual in early Christian literature
T2  - Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
SN  - 9780198791959
AV  - BT590.R57 B55 2017
U1  - 270.1 23
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Greece
KW  - Rome
KW  - Judaism
N1  - 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
ER  -