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Author(s): Eve Levavi Feinstein
ISBN(s): 9780199395545, 0199395543
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.57 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199395543
ISBN 13: 9780199395545
Author: Eve Levavi Feinstein

The concepts of purity and pollution are fundamental to the worldview reflected in the Hebrew Bible, yet the ways biblical texts apply these concepts to sexual relationships remain largely overlooked. Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible argues that, when applied to sexual relations, pollution language usually reflects a conception of women as sexual property susceptible to being “ruined” for particular men through contamination by others. In contrast, however, the Holiness legislation of the Pentateuch applies such language to men who engage in transgressive sexual relations, conveying the idea that male bodily purity is a prerequisite for individual and communal holiness. This understanding of sexual pollution, found in Leviticus 18, has a profound impact on later texts. In the book of Ezekiel, it contributes to a broader conception of pollution resulting from Israel’s sins, which bring about the Babylonian exile. In the book of Ezra, it figures in a view of the Israelite community as a body of males contaminated by foreign women. Drawing on psychological and cross-cultural studies as well as philological and historical-critical analysis of biblical texts, Eve Feinstein’s study illuminates the reasons why the idea of pollution adheres to particular domains of experience, including sex, death, and certain types of infirmity.

Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1. background
1.2. perspectives on purity and pollution in the hebrew bible
1.3. outline of the book
1.4. a note on hebrew terminology and english translation

2 Purity and Pollution Ideas in the Hebrew Bible
2.1. introduction
2.2. the language of pollution
2.3. the pollution concept: a cross-cultural psychological approach
2.4. disgust and desire
2.5. conclusion

3 Sexual Pollution of Women
3.1. introduction
3.2. the suspected adulteress (num 5:11–31)
3.3. the pollution of woman israel
3.4. restoration of marriage (deut 24:1–4)
3.5. dinah and shechem (gen 34)
3.6. priestly marriage restrictions
3.7. conclusion

4 Leviticus 18 and Sexual Pollution of Men
4.1. introduction
4.2. the prohibitions (vv. 6–23)
4.3. the concluding oration (vv. 24–30)
4.4. conclusion

5 The Legacy of Leviticus 18 in the Hebrew Bible
5.1. introduction
5.2. sexual pollution in ezekiel
5.3. exogamy and pollution in ezra 9
5.4. conclusion

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