Purity and Holiness: The Heritage of Leviticus

by Marcel Poorthuis

Purity has long been recognized as one of the essential drives which determines humankind's relationship with the holy. Codes of purity and impurity, dealing with such far-ranging topics as 'external stains' and 'inner remorse', represent the physical and 'bodily' side of religious experience and provide the key to the understanding of human orientation to nature, and the structure of society, including even relationships between the sexes.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004114181
• ISBN13: 9789004114180
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"