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At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds - Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity Among the Jews of Roman Galilee (Hardcover, 2nd 2., Revised ed.)
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At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds - Stepped Pools, Stone Vessels, and Ritual Purity Among the Jews of Roman Galilee (Hardcover, 2nd 2., Revised ed.)
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Stuart Miller examines the hermeneutical challenges posed by the
material and literary evidence pertaining to ritual purity
practices in Graeco-Roman Palestine and, especially, the Galilee.
He contends that "stepped pools", which we now know were in use
well beyond the Destruction of the Temple, and, as indicated by the
large collection on the western acropolis of Sepphoris and
elsewhere, into the Middle and Late Roman/Byzantine eras,must be
understood in light of biblical and popular perspectives on ritual
purity. The interpretation of the finds is too frequently forced to
conform to rabbinic prescriptions, which oftentimes were the result
of the sages unique and creative, nominalist approach to ritual
purity. Special attention is given to the role ritual purity
continued to play in the lives of ordinary Jews despite (or because
of) the loss of the Temple. Miller argues against the prevailing
tendency to type material finds -- and Jewish society -- according
to known groups (pre-70 C.E.: Pharisaic, Sadducaic, Essenic; post
70 C.E.: rabbinic, priestly, etc.). He further counters the
perception that ritual purity practices were largely the interest
of priests and argues against the recent suggestion that the
kohanim resurfaced as an influential group in Late Antiquity.
Building upon his earlier work on "sages and commoners," Miller
claims that the rabbis emerged out of a context in which a
biblically derived "complex common Judaism" thrived. Stepped pools,
stone vessels, and other material finds are realia belonging to
this "complex common Judaism". A careful reading of the rabbis
indicates that they were acutely aware of the extent to which
ritual purity rites pertaining to home and family life had
"spread," which undoubtedly contributed to their intense interest
in regulating them.
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