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Purity and monotheism : clean and unclean animals in biblical law / Walter Houston

Author
Houston, Walter
Published
Sheffield, England : JSOT Press, [1993]
Copyright Date
©1993
Physical Description
1 online resource (314 pages).
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Contents
Preface; Abbreviations; A Note on Hebrew; Chapter 1 APPROACHES TO A PROBLEM; Chapter 2 THE LAW OF UNCLEAN FLESH; Chapter 3 A REVIEW OF EXPLANATIONS; Chapter 4 THE CONTEXT SURVEYED; Chapter 5 THE CONTEXT INTERPRETED; Chapter 6 PURITY AND MONOTHEISM; Chapter 7 MONOTHEISM WITHOUT PURITY; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors.
Summary
The distinction between clean and unclean animals, probably originating in tensions between shepherds and farmers, is in the biblical laws of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 transformed into an important theological principle. In this wide-ranging and elegantly written study, Houston argues that the avoidance of 'unclean' foods is a mark of the exclusive devotion of Israel to one god. In a concluding chapter, it is suggested that the abolition of the distinction in early Christianity corresponds to the universal horizon of the new faith.
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ISBN
9780567071903 (electronic bk.)
0567071901 (electronic bk.)
1850753687
9781850753681
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303) and indexes.
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