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Summary: | The main areas examined include "fathers" of impurity; leprosy, genital discharges and corpse-contamination. Jesus is found to have acted in ways easily understood and indifference to these types of impurity. Jesus may be understood as operating within the purity paradigm of his time, yet pushing it to the breaking point..
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Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 2002. |
Physical Description: | xii, 402 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: | 9122019642 |