Hermeneutics of holiness: ancient jewish and christian notions of sexuality and religious community

This book tells the story of how the biblical notions of 'holy person' or 'holy community' comes to be defined by sexual and marriage practices by various interpretive communities in late antiquity. Tracing this development from the biblical texts into the fourth century, Koltun-Fromm argues that sexual practices among Jews and Christians, particularly ascetic sexual practices, are rooted in the history of biblical exegesis and tradition as much as in any other late ancient phenomena. INDICE: Introduction; Part I; 1.: In the Beginning: Holiness in the Bible; 2.: Holy Seed or Holy Deed: Sexuality between Holiness and Purity in Second Temple Literature; Part II; 3.: Holiness Perfected: Pauline Constructs of Holy Community; 4.: 'Mother-City of All Evils:' Sexuality vs. Holiness in Early Syriac Christian Literature; Part III; 5.: Wedding Garments and Holy Yokes: Celibacy and Holiness in Aphrahat the Persian Sage; 6.: Zipporah's Complaint: Moses is Not Conscientious in the Deed: Exegetical Traditions of Moses' Celibacy; 7.: Sanctify Yourself: Rabbinic Notions of Holiness and Sexuality; Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-19-973648-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés