Perspectives on Purity and Purification in the Bible

Baruch J. Schwartz is the A. M. Shlansky senior lecturer in Biblical History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research centers on Biblical religion and law, the Torah, classical prophetic literature and medieval biblical exegesis. He is the author of The Holiness Legislation (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1999) and of the commentary on Leviticus in The Jewish Study Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). He was an editor of the volume Texts, Temples and Traditions: A Tribute to Menahem Haran (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1996). Naphtali S. Meshel, M.A., teaches at the Department of Bible and at the "Amirim" Program for Outstanding Students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation titled "Ritual as Language" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jeffrey Stackert is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.He is the author of Rewriting the Torah: Literary Revision in Deuteronomy and the Holiness Legislation (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007). David P. Wright is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East at Brandeis University.

Mention -New Testament Abstracts, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2009

• Baruch J. Schwatrz and David P. WrightIntroductionRoy E. Gane, Andrews UniversityThe Function of the Nazirite's Concluding Purification OfferingJonathan Klawans, Boston UniversityMethodology and Ideology in the Study of Priestly RitualJay Sklar, Covenant Theological SeminarySin and Impurity: Atoned and Purified? Yes!Frank Gorman, Bethany CollegePriests and Pagans: Ritual Structures, Blood, and PurificationNaphtali S. Meshel, Hebrew University, JerusalemPure, Impure, Permitted, Prohibited: A Study ofClassification Systems in PWilliam K. Gilders, Emory UniversityBlood as Purificant in Priestly Torah: What Do We Know and How Do We Know and How Do We Know It?David Tabb Stewart, Southwestern UniversityDoes the Priestly Purity Code (Leviticus 11-15) Domesticate Women?Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of TheologyDirt, Disgust, and Demons: Body and Morality in Biblical Purity Laws