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By Jonathan Klawans

This ebook examines the ways that particular biblical conceptions of impurity-"ritual" and "moral"-were interpreted within the Hebrew Bible, the lifeless Sea Scrolls, rabbinic literature, and the hot testomony. In reading the evolution of historical Jewish attitudes in the direction of sin and defilement, Klawans sheds mild on a desirable yet formerly missed topic.

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