Purity and Monotheism
Clean and Unclean Animals in Biblical Law
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 1993
314 pages
978-0-567-07190-3 (ISBN)
Description
The distinction between clean and unclean animals, probably originating in tensions between shepherds and farmers, is in the biblical laws of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 transformed into an important theological principle. In this wide-ranging and elegantly written study, Houston argues that the avoidance of 'unclean' foods is a mark of the exclusive devotion of Israel to one god. In a concluding chapter, it is suggested that the abolition of the distinction in early Christianity corresponds to the universal horizon of the new faith.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-07190-3 (9780567071903)
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11/2009
Sheffield Academic Press
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Person
The Rev. Dr Walter J. Houston is Fellow Emeritus at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a contributor to the Oxford Bible Commentary and Eerdmans Bible Commentary.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Hebrew
- Chapter 1 APPROACHES TO A PROBLEM
- Chapter 2 THE LAW OF UNCLEAN FLESH
- Chapter 3 A REVIEW OF EXPLANATIONS
- Chapter 4 THE CONTEXT SURVEYED
- Chapter 5 THE CONTEXT INTERPRETED
- Chapter 6 PURITY AND MONOTHEISM
- Chapter 7 MONOTHEISM WITHOUT PURITY
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- J
- K
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