RT Book
T1 Purity, community, and ritual in early christian literature
T2 Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
A1 Blidstein, Moshe 1982-
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/863768091
AB 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
NO Bibliography p. 237 - 274
CN BT590.R57
SN 9780198791959
K1 Purity, Ritual : Christianity : History of doctrines
K1 Purity, Ritual : Greece
K1 Purity, Ritual : Rome
K1 Purity, Ritual : Judaism : History of doctrines