Jesus and the Purity Paradigm

Holmén, Tom

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“…An essay such as this one is helpful insofar as it is representative of the major critical issues addressed by scholarship on a wide range of early Jewish texts, but it cannot be exhaustive. For accessible scholarship more closely focused on purity and Qumran, see Harrington 2006, 2011; Klawans 2010; for purity in relation to the historical Jesus and the writings of the NT, see Holmén 2010; Kazen 2010b: 1-42; Meier 2009: 342-477; Latz and Ermakov 2014: 89-176; for the treatment of purity in Philo, see Leonhardt 2001: 256-272; and in Josephus, see Mason 2013. For other accessible work related to purity in early Judaism, see Klawans 2000; Haber 2008: 9-74; Frevel and Nihan 2013: 1-46, 457-572.…”

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Purity in Early Judaism: Current Issues and Questions

Rogan

2018

Currents in Biblical Research

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The study of purity has become a crucial undertaking in the scholarly quest to understand the social and theological dimensions of early Judaism and the texts that early Jews both formed and were formed by. This article surveys scholarly literature on purity in ancient and early Judaism, in order to identify and address four areas of critical inquiry that ought to be taken into consideration when questions about purity arise in the study of early Jewish writings: (1) the conceptualization of purity as a symbolic system; (2) the distinction between kinds of purity (ritual, moral, and genealogical); (3) the relation of purity to the temple and, more broadly, to space; and (4) the function of purity to construct and maintain social identity. Attention to these critical issues promises to give clarity, direction and depth to scholarship on purity in early Judaism.

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Purity in Early Judaism: Current Issues and Questions

Rogan

2018

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…62, 65, 73-74). 59 See, similarly, Holmén who argues that Jesus demonstrates an "inverse strategy of ritual (im)purity" (Holmén 2011(Holmén , p. 2723.…”

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Samaritan Israelites and Jews under the Shadow of Rome: Reading John 4:4–45 in Ephesus

Hunt

2023

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Genealogies, knowledge, and purity all can provide separate identities with the means for competing self-definition. This article assumes a social location near Ephesus with Samaritan Israelites and Judeans in a Jesus-believing network. Rather than providing an analysis in which divisions are transcended, this reading suggests that a negotiation in John 4:4–45 of these three characteristics navigates divisions to create a complex, merged superordinate identity.

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Jesus and the Purity Paradigm

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Purity in Early Judaism: Current Issues and Questions

Purity in Early Judaism: Current Issues and Questions

Samaritan Israelites and Jews under the Shadow of Rome: Reading John 4:4–45 in Ephesus

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