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Title: Purity Beyond the Temple in the Second Temple Era.
Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
Release Date : January 22, 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 219 KB

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In the first line of the article on ritual purity in Encyclopedia Judaica, we read that purity is "a concept that a person or object can be in a state which, by religious law, prevents the person or object from having any contact with the temple or its cult." (1) A number of more recent studies have adopted a similar view, claiming that the purity laws of Second Temple Judaism derive their essential warrant from the existence of the temple cult. In the present study, I refer to such a view as "minimalist" and argue that, in Second Temple times, there was no necessary connection between purity and the temple. I. Critique of the Minimalist View