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The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Series Number 53) by Michael Newton, Newton, Michael is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Series Number 53) about?
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
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Michael Newton, Newton, Michael
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521265836
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Judaism, Education, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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