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  3. The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      May 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511555022
      9780521020589
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511555022
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      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.245kg, 184 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Judaism, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion
      Series:
      Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (53)
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    Subjects:
    Judaism, Biblical Studies - New Testament, Classical Literature, Religion
    Series:
    Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (53)
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    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.

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