Jesus and the Laws of Purity
Tradition History and Legal History in Mark 7
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 1987
278 pages
978-0-567-29043-4 (ISBN)
Description
The principal concern of this book is to show how uncovering the history of legal development can serve as a control for the conclusions of tradition history. In this groundbreaking study, the author brings his own professional experience as a lawyer to bear upon questions of Jewish law and of Gospel criticism. Dr Booth first establishes redaction-critically and form-critically which elements of Mark 7.1-23 are to be assigned to Mark, which to the early church, and which to the probable legal disputes of Jesus with the Pharisees. Then he charts the history of the purity laws, determining which legal statements in the text are credible in the situation of AD 30. This methodologically original approach enables him to formulate telling criticisms of some current procedures and conclusions of traditio-historical and form-critical scholars.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-567-29043-4 (9780567290434)
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Content
- Cover
- Editorial Board
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Prefatory Notes
- Introduction
- PART I Traditio-historical Criticism
- CHAPTER 1 THE PRE-MARCAN TRADITION
- CHAPTER 2 THE HISTORY OF THE PRE-MARCAN TRADITION
- PART II Historico-legal Criticism
- CHAPTER 3 PRELIMINARY MATTERS
- CHAPTER 4 THE HISTORY OF PURITY IN EATING
- CHAPTER 5 SUPEREROGATORY HANDWASHING
- CHAPTER 6 THE SOURCES OF IMPURITY
- CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSIONS
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Passages Cited
- Index of Authors
- Index of Rabbis
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Selected Hebrew and Greek Words
