Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral MetaphorCambridge University Press, 18 בנוב׳ 2021 - 350 עמודים 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. |
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Introduction | 3 |
What Is Pollution? | 27 |
embodying pollution through | 57 |
The Missing Ritual for Healing Skin Disease | 76 |
Diagnosing Sin | 91 |
Pollution as a Causal Theory | 107 |
Impure Food and the Soul | 131 |
Death and the Polluting Spirit | 145 |
The Moralized Body | 175 |
Gender Fluidity and the Danger of Leaky Manhood | 207 |
Contagious Holiness | 243 |
Naturalizing a Religious Concept | 261 |
Works Cited | 271 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Akkadian ancient Israel Ancient Near East ancient Near Eastern associated behavior belief biblical evidence bodily body Brill Cambridge University Press causal chapter Cognitive concept contagion context corpse Cult cultic cultural curse dead death pollution defilement depiction Deut discourse discussion disease disgust distinction divine domain edited Eisenbrauns emission Emotion Enkidu example expression Gender gonorrheic Greek healing Hebrew Bible Hittite holiness human implications impurity infection interpretation Israelite Jacob Milgrom language Leiden leprosy Leviticus linguistic Magic Mary Douglas menstrual menstruant Mesopotamian Metaphor modern Mohr Siebeck moral nepeš niddah notion Numbers offering Oxford University Press Paul Rozin perspective pertains polemic pollution priest Priestly source Psychological purification refers regarding Religion rites ritual role Rozin sacred scholars semantic sexual pollution sexual relations similar social soul specifically spirit Studies suggests symbolic term terminology texts theory tion Torah traditions translation Tübingen Ugaritic uncleanness understanding Winona Lake women Yhwh Yitzhaq Feder York