TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blidstein, Moshe
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Purity, community, and ritual in early christian literature
T3  - Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Greece
KW  - Rome
KW  - Judaism
AB  - 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
SN  - 9780198791959
LA  - English
N1  - Moshe Blidstein
ID  - 863768091
ER  -