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Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature /

This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blidstein, Moshe, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : OUP Premium : OUP Oxford, 2017.
Series:Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions.
Subjects:
Purity, Ritual > Christianity > History.
Purity, Ritual > Judaism > History of doctrines.
Purity, Ritual > Greece.
Purity, Ritual > Rome.
Pureté rituelle > Christianisme > Histoire.
Pureté rituelle > Judaïsme > Histoire des doctrines.
Pureté rituelle > Rome.
Pureté rituelle > Grèce.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
Purity, Ritual > Christianity
Purity, Ritual
Purity, Ritual > Judaism > History of doctrines
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Frühchristentum
Gemeinschaft
Literatur
Reinheit
Ritual
Waschung
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780192509765
0192509764
9780191834172
0191834173
019879195X
9780198791959