Full title
Toward a Well-Formed Subject: The Function of Purity Language in the Serek ha-Yahad
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Research notes
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Reference type
Year
2000
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Volume
21
Pages
103-120
Work type
Alternative title
JSP
Label
17/09/2000
Abstract
Investigates the function of Purity language in the Qumran community. Purity codes; Study of interdisciplinary approach drawing from two main theorists, Mary Douglas and Mikhail Bakhtin; Kinds of dangers that pose a threat to a society's cognitive system which may evoke purity rhetoric as a response.
Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents