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Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul

Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521020589
Published: 06/10/2005
This examination of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Letters of Paul finds that, in both these bodies of literature, religious self-understanding is expressed in terms of the concept of purity so important to primitive religion and earlier Judaism. Dr Newton contradicts the view held by most scholars that the traditional Jewish attitude to purity had no place in Christianity. By using the concept of purity not unlike that at Qumran or of Pharisaic and Rabbinic Judaism, Paul could elucidate his views on, among other things, the nature of the Church, the divine presence, the basis of ethical behaviour and the significance of the death of Jesus.

Michael Newton, John Court

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