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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154324703321

Autore

Feinstein Eve Levavi

Titolo

Sexual pollution in the Hebrew Bible

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-939556-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

221.8/3067

Soggetti

Sex in the Bible - Biblical teaching

Women in the Bible

Purity, Ritual

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible, yet this is the first book to examine the ways biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships. Drawing on psychological and cross-cultural studies as well as on philological and historical-critical analysis of biblical texts, this book argues that the concept of pollution is rooted in disgust and that pollution language applied to sexual relations expresses a sense of bodily contamination resulting from revulsion.