Toward a Well-Formed Subject: The Function of Purity Language in the Serek ha-Yahad

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Shlomi Efrati
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Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Conway, Colleen M.
year: 
2000
Full title: 

Toward a Well-Formed Subject: The Function of Purity Language in the Serek ha-Yahad

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Volume: 
21
Pages: 
103-120
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
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.

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JSP

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Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents: 
Scroll / Document: 
1QS
Section type: 
Column
Passage: 
2^3
URL: 
http://jsp.sagepub.com/content/11/21/103.full.pdf+html
Label: 
17/09/2000
Record number: 
18 485