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Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor

by Israel) Yitzaq Feder (university Of Haifa

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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In this book, Yitzhaq Feder presents a novel and compelling account of pollution in ancient Israel, from its emergence as an embodied concept, rooted in physiological experience, to its expression as a pervasive metaphor in social-moral discourse. Feder aims to bring the biblical and ancient Near Eastern evidence into a sustained conversation with anthropological and psychological research through comparison with notions of contagion in other ancient and modern cultural contexts. Showing how numerous interpretive difficulties are the result of imposing modern concepts on the ancient texts, he guides readers through wide-ranging parallels to biblical attitudes in ancient Near Eastern, ethnographic, and modern cultures. Feder demonstrates how contemporary evolutionary and psychological research can be applied to ancient textual evidence. He also suggests a path of synthesis that can move beyond the polarized positions which currently characterize modern academic and popular debates bearing on the roles of biology and culture in shaping human behavior.
Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor and Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual
Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical RitualPurity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor
  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2021

  • Weight

    663g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781316517574

  • ISBN-10

    1316517578

  • Eden Code

    5570325

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