%0 Book
%T Purity, community, and ritual in early christian literature
%A Blidstein, Moshe
%S Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
%D 2017
%I Oxford University Press
%C Oxford
%@ 9780198791959
%G English
%F 863768091
%O Moshe Blidstein
%O Bibliography p. 237 - 274
%X 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
%L 270.1
%K Purity, Ritual
%K Christianity
%K History of doctrines
%K Greece
%K Rome
%K Judaism
%9 Text