Hermeneutics of Holiness
Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community
Hardcover | 20 August 2010
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Koltun-Fromm seeks to explain why sexuality, especially sexual restraint, became a primary demarcation of sacred community boundaries among Jews and Christians in fourth-century Persian-Mesopotamia. She charts three primary manifestations of holiness: holiness ascribed, holiness achieved, and holiness acquired through ritual purity. Hermeneutics of Holiness traces the development of these three concepts, from their origin in the biblical texts to the Second Temple literature (both Jewish and Christian) to the Syriac Christian and rabbinic literature of the fourth century. In so doing, this book establishes the importance of biblical interpretation for late ancient Jewish and Christian practices, the centrality of holiness as a category for self-definition, and the relationship of fourth-century asceticism to biblical texts and interpretive history.
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ISBN: 9780199736485
ISBN-10: 0199736480
Published: 20th August 2010
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 328
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 16.5 x 24.1 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.57
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- Non-FictionPsychologySexual Behaviour
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsReligion
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsChristianityChristian Life & PracticeChristian Aspects of Sexuality, Gender & Relationships
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsChristianityChristian Churches, Denominations, GroupsThe Early Church
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsJudaism
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsChristianityChristian Theology
- Non-FictionReligion & BeliefsChristianityBiblical Studies & Exegesis