@Book{863768091,
author="Blidstein, Moshe",
title="Purity, community, and ritual in early christian literature",
series="Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions",
year="2017",
publisher="Oxford University Press",
address="Oxford",
keywords="Purity, Ritual; Christianity; History of doctrines; Greece; Rome; Judaism",
abstract="Part I. Purity in its contexts. Introducing purity discourses -- Purity and defilement in the Greco-Roman East and in Judaism -- Part II. Breaking with the past. Early Christian attitudes towards dietary impurity -- Early Christian attitudes towards death defilement -- Part III. Roots of a new paradigm: the first two centuries. Baptism as purification in early Christian texts -- The pure community, the holy sacrifice, and the defilement of sin -- Sexual defilement in early Christian texts -- Part IV. New configurations: purity, body, and community in the third century. Dietary and sexual purity in Jewish-Christian communities -- The Origenist synthesis -- General conclusions",
note="Moshe Blidstein",
note="Bibliography p. 237 - 274",
isbn="9780198791959",
language="English"
}