Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor

by Yitzhaq Feder

In this book, Yitzhaq Feder presents a novel and compelling account of pollution in ancient Israel, from its emergence as an embodied concept, rooted in physiological experience, to its expression as a pervasive metaphor in social-moral discourse. Feder aims to bring the biblical and ancient Near Eastern evidence into a sustained conversation with anthropological and psychological research through comparison with notions of contagion in other ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009045652
• ISBN13: 9781009045650
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"