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Hermeneutics of Holiness - Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community (Hardcover, New)
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Hermeneutics of Holiness - Ancient Jewish and Christian Notions of Sexuality and Religious Community (Hardcover, New)
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In Hermeneutics of Holiness, Naomi Koltun-Fromm examines the
ancient nexus of holiness and sexuality and explores its roots in
the biblical texts as well as its manifestations throughout ancient
and late-ancient Judaism and early Syriac Christianity. In the
process, she tells the story of how the biblical notions of "holy
person" and "holy community" came to be defined by the sexual and
marriage practices of various interpretive communities in late
antiquity.
Koltun-Fromm seeks to explain why sexuality, especially sexual
restraint, became a primary demarcation of sacred community
boundaries among Jews and Christians in fourth-century
Persian-Mesopotamia. She charts three primary manifestations of
holiness: holiness ascribed, holiness achieved, and holiness
acquired through ritual purity. Hermeneutics of Holiness traces the
development of these three concepts, from their origin in the
biblical texts to the Second Temple literature (both Jewish and
Christian) to the Syriac Christian and rabbinic literature of the
fourth century. In so doing, this book establishes the importance
of biblical interpretation for late ancient Jewish and Christian
practices, the centrality of holiness as a category for
self-definition, and the relationship of fourth-century asceticism
to biblical texts and interpretive history.
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